Gambit New Orleans June 7, 2016

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June 7 2016 Volume 37 Number 23

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Review: Tana at Treo 22 HEALTH

People in Health Pullout

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TUE. JUNE 7 | Area amp-collectors Caddywhompus kick off their June jaunt with this St. Claude Avenue sendoff, joined by Austin, Texas’ Boyfrndz and Residual Kid and Baton Rouge’s’ power-popping Melters. At 9:30 p.m. at Siberia.

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SEVEN THINGS TO DO IN SEVEN DAYS

Buckethead WED. JUNE 8 | Performing Olympic guitar sprints behind a slasher mask with a KFC bucket on his head, Brian Patrick Carroll looks like a psycho killer on a midnight snack break.

Carroll was born two months before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, a fact that makes his 260-plus solo studio recordings (and dozens of group projects) seem no more feasible.

At 8 p.m. at House of Blues.

Parting gift Allen Toussaint’s final album American Tunes.

Known Mass No. 2 WED. JUNE 8 | “Out Music in Contact” is the second installment of the DIY- and devised theater-inspired improvised dance and music company’s Known Mass series. Company dancers perform with music from Heat Dust’s Jasper den Hartigh.

At 9 p.m. at Art Klub.

BY JOHN WIRT @JOHNWIRT1

AMERICAN TUNES IS ALLEN TOUSSAINT’S BEAUTIFUL PARTING GIFT. Like its

Grammy Award-nominated predecessor, 2009’s The Bright Mississippi, American Tunes casts the songwriter, producer and pianist in a role he assumed late in life: the artistpianist interpreting the music of fellow American masters.

His touch is unmistakable.

Joe Henry, the man behind The Bright Mississippi and American Tunes (out June 10), made a name for himself as a producer of legacy artists. Bonnie Raitt, Aaron Neville, Irma Thomas, Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Solomon Burke, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Mose Allison are in that large number.

As important as the above artists are to Henry, Toussaint occupies a special place.

“I’ve never had another relationship in my life like the one I enjoyed with Allen,” Henry says. “And I won’t ever again.”

Henry and Toussaint’s decade of collaboration began with 2005’s I Believe to My Soul, a collection of new recordings by classic soul and rhythm-and-blues artists Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Mavis Staples, Ann Peebles and Billy Preston.

Toussaint’s willingness to travel to Los Angeles to participate in the Soul sessions surprised Henry.

“Allen told me he never imagined leaving New Orleans again,” Henry says. “He played (the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival) and a couple of things here and there. He considered himself to be retired.”

During a break in the I Believe to My Soul sessions, Henry overheard

Feufollet and The Deslondes FRI. JUNE 10 | Lafayette’s Cajun rock ‘n’ rollers and psych-folk troubadours share the stage with singer Aurora Nealand for a set of swamp pop jukebox classics. New Orleans’ honky tonk favorites The Deslondes share the bill before a U.K. tour. Alligator Chomp Chomp DJs also spin swamp pop and R&B. At 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Toussaint playing solo piano.

“He was in the room alone,” Henry recalled. “He started playing Fats Waller. I said, ‘Hey. Have you ever thought of making a record like that?’ He kept playing and sort of smiled and said, ‘Oh, no, never.’

He said it in such a way that I was sure he had thought of it.”

Hurricane Katrina preceded the release of I Believe to My Soul by two months.

“I was with Allen in New York, doing press for the album,” Henry recalls. “Allen, the seminal figurehead of New Orleans music, was exiled after his home was destroyed. He became the center of a lot of attention.”

After the levee failures and floods in 2005, Toussaint agreed to record an album with Elvis Costello. Knowing Henry had plans to make a Toussaint solo album, the British star, invited Henry to produce the Costello-Toussaint collaboration that resulted in The River in Reverse.

Henry wouldn’t realize his dream of producing a Toussaint solo album until The Bright Mississippi.

When the project was finally in

Joe Henry (left) and Allen Toussaint collaborate in the studio while producing I Believe to My Soul.

P H OTO B Y M I E K E K R A M E R

production, Toussaint deferred to Henry as to what he should record.

Remembering Toussaint’s piano soloing during the I Believe to My Soul sessions, Henry opted to present Toussaint playing music he didn’t write. The Bright Mississippi features Toussaint’s interpretations of classics by Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Django Reinhardt, Jelly Roll Morton, Joe “King” Oliver and Sidney Bechet.

“It was a successful project by everybody’s estimation and an incredibly important for me,” Henry says. “Then I spent the next six years chasing Allen to make the follow-up.”

The elegant, largely instrumental American Tunes follows The Bright Mississippi template. There’s music

by Waller, Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, PAGE 31

Marigny Opera House New Dance Festival FRI.-SUN. JUNE 10-12 | New works inlcude a Will Byram piece inspired by Tennessee Williams, Maritza Mercado-Narcisse’s That space between and Angelle Hebert and Shannon Stewart’s postmodern birthday celebration, all performed to live music. At 8 p.m. at Marigny Opera House.

Bethlehem Steel SUN. JUNE 12 | Becca Ryskalczyk’s voice purrs above the Buffalo-bred, Brooklyn-based trio’s snowy blankets of feedback and fuzz on the band’s pop-punky 2015 EP Docking.

New York punks Stringer are also on the bill at 10 p.m. at Saturn Bar.

Weezer SUN. JUNE 12 | Weezer’s 10th (10th!) album, its fourth self-titled release (cheekily dubbed The White Album), thankfully shares some DNA with its fan-treasured early LPs. Unnecessarily punctuated pop band Panic! At the Disco opens for its heroes at 6:30 p.m. at Champions Square.

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Jeff Asher

@crimealytics Armed robberies & carjackings over Memorial Day weekend (FriMon) in New Orleans: 2011 - 12 2012 - 5 2013 - 8 2014 - 5 2015 - 5 2016 - 26

Geoffrey Gauchet @animatedGeoff

My hurricane evac plan is the same as everyone else’s: wait until the last moment and clog up the interstate for 18 hours

Beth

@elsbet Pretty sure #NYTimesTravelTips based their copy on watching New Orleans in Hollywood South.

Mardi Gras, gumbo parties and wrong turns.

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2 inches

The amount that Norco, Louisiana and Michoud are sinking — per year.

Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech

P H O T O C O U R T E S Y N A S A /J P L - C A LT E C H , E S R I

THAT SINKING FEELING: Using airborne radar data collected between 2009 and 2012, NASA determined that areas of southern Louisiana are subsiding at markedly different rates. “While the study cites many contributing factors for the regional subsidence,” the study concluded, “the primary contributors were found to be groundwater pumping and dewatering (surface water pumping to lower the water table, which prevents standing water and soggy ground).”

More bad news: “The team also observed notable subsidence in New Orleans’ Upper and Lower 9th Ward, and in Metairie, where the measured ground movement could be related to water levels in the Mississippi,” NASA reported. “At the Bonnet Carré Spillway east of Norco — New Orleans’ last line of protection against springtime river floods overtopping the levees — research showed up to 1.6 inches (40 millimeters) a year of sinking behind the structure and up to 1.6 inches (40 millimeters) a year at nearby industrial facilities.”

To read the whole study, visit www.jpl.nasa.gov. — KEVIN ALLMAN

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To review this session, your kids are now required to recite the Dec. of Independence, write in cursive, & keep their babies #lagov #lalege

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Memorial Day weekend was a particularly violent one, with six people killed.

Do you have confidence that NOPD will get violent crime under control this summer?

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The Emeril Lagasse Foundation

distributed more than $150,000 to several Gulf Coast organizations: Second Harvest Food Bank and its Summer Feeding, Kids Cafe and School Pantry programs; Liberty’s Kitchen’s Youth Leadership Center; the Louisiana Restaurant Association’s Education Fund; the Ingram Lee Foundation; Broad Community Connections’ ReFresh Kids’ Camp; and Florida’s Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center.

Design Management Group

awarded the Metropolitan Center for Women and Children a $55,000 building upgrade through its 2016 “Building Better Renovation” initiative.

The center serves survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The project will renovate the intake room at its Jefferson location, which offers free therapy sessions for children.

Darryl Stewart,

a former Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office supervisor, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court June 1 to directing two U.S. Department of Justice grants to his own paycheck — grants intended for overtime work for the Narcotics Unit he managed. He also claimed grantfunded “overtime” for work he did with private security details.

He faces up to 10 years in prison when he’s sentenced Sept. 7.

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Comment

Last week’s “The Count,” about the hourly wage a New Orleanian needs to make to rent in the city, drew this comment: “Trying to find an affordable place to live is as hard as finding a safe place to live these days. Wages won’t go up & rents won’t come down.

I understand that property taxes & insurance rates drive landlord expenses up but something has to give.” —

brendan spaar

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COMMENTARY

A slow-moving tropical storm or major rain event can be as catastrophic as a fast-moving hurricane.

HURRICANE SEASON OFFICIALLY BEGAN JUNE 1 , but tropical storms

don’t pay attention to the calendar.

Hurricane Alex formed in January of this year — an extremely rare occurrence — and Tropical Storm Bonnie brought a lot of rain to the Carolinas for Memorial Day weekend. As of press time, the National Weather Service was keeping an eye on a patch of disturbed weather in the Gulf of Mexico.

That’s a change from recent years, which have seen a hurricane “drought.” Not one hurricane made landfall in the U.S. last year. Since the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (pictured) in 2005, only four have made landfall in Louisiana, none above a Category 2 (Gustav, in 2008).

This year will be much more like “normal,” meteorologists say — due in part to the formation of La Nina, the wind pattern more conducive to hurricane formation. (We have had El Nino conditions for the last few years, which inhibits hurricanes.)

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicts 10 to 16 named storms with four to eight named hurricanes and one to four major hurricanes (Categories 3, 4 or 5).

However, as we know all too well, a slow-moving tropical storm or major rain event can be as catastrophic as a fast-moving hurricane — just look at the record flooding in parts of Texas recently.

For natives and newcomers alike, a good place to begin hurricane preparations is the state’s Get a Game Plan website (www.getagameplan.org). It helps you prepare an evacuation plan, protect your home and valuables and anticipate medical needs. It offers information on what to do with your pets (hint: take them with you, along with pet carriers and proof of vaccinations).

You can sign up for weather and emergency alerts. The City of New Orleans also has comprehensive tips on its website at www.ready.nola. gov, where you can sign up for local emergency alerts and get information about city-assisted evacuation if you need it.

Here are some tips you may not find on websites: keep your car gassed up all summer; download a hurricane app for your smartphone (our partners at WWL-TV have a free one called Weathercaster); get a waterproof box and stow important papers and photos in it (if you have a backup hard drive, consider putting that in there too and buying a second one); stash some cash in case ATMs and credit card machines are down; keep a separate phone charger in your car; if you evacuate with kids, take a tablet or DVD player to keep them occupied; and bring at least a week’s supply of medicines.

Also remember: If phone lines are down, texting still may be possible (we learned this after Hurricane Katrina); if you stay, know that even a minor storm can knock out power for a week or longer — be prepared.

Most important, if authorities call for an evacuation, be ready to go immediately — and pack plenty of patience. You’ll need that more than anything else.

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1. MEDICAID EXPANSION

likely to pass

BEGINS IN LOUISIANA

Louisiana likely will stop considering 17-year-olds who commit minor crimes as “adults.” Senate Bill 324 (the “Raise the Age” law) from state. Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, prevents 17-year-olds from entering an adult criminal justice system rather than a juvenile one. It easily passed the House last week after passage in the Senate. After another round in the Senate, it will head to the desk of Gov. John Bel Edwards, who supports it.

Beginning this month, thousands of Louisianans are eligible to get federally subsidized health insurance coverage under Gov. John Bel Edwards’ Medicaid expansion.

Edwards and expansion advocates hope to enroll 375,000 people — and already Edwards (pictured, right) and Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Rebekah Gee (left) say more than 175,000 people are signed up.

The program under the Affordable Care Act covers people with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (roughly $16,200 for a single adult, $33,400 for a family of four). People can apply via www.healthy. la.gov or by calling (888) 342-6207.

Last week, Edwards and Gee visited University Medical Center in New Orleans (where 100,000 patients a year are eligible for coverage) to kick off the enrollment campaign.

“This isn’t about liberal vs. conservative, Democrat vs. Republican,” he said. “It’s right vs. wrong, not right vs. left.”

6. Fire at Bywater’s Aquarium Gallery

P H O T O B Y A L E X W O O D WA R D

2. Quote of the week “A bit of a mess.” — Gov. John Bel Edwards summarizing the state budget process in a meeting with the editorial board of The New Orleans Advocate. Edwards has called another special session of the Legislature — the second of the year — to begin 30 minutes after the regular session ends Monday (June 6). The state Senate approved a $26 billion operating budget June 1, but House and Senate conferees were still hammering out a final spending plan over the weekend. The budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 may not be adopted until after the special session gets underway.

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Fayard: I’ll take 65 percent of my salary if elected Caroline Fayard, one of three Democrats running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by David Vitter, held a press conference at Dooky Chase Restaurant last week to announce she

would take only 65 percent of her salary if elected — an attempt to stand in solidarity with working women of Louisiana, she said. Women in Louisiana earn only 65.3 percent of what their male counterparts bring home each year, making the state the worst in the country for wage equality, according to a report issued yearly by the National Partnership for Women & Families.

Fayard is the only woman to declare her candidacy in the race so far. Other declared candidates include Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, a Democrat; U.S. Reps. John Fleming and Charles Boustany, state Treasurer John Kennedy, retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness and former U.S. Rep Anh “Joseph” Cao, all Republicans; and former state Sen. Troy Hebert, an independent.

4. Treme, FQ clubs appealing closures

Fans and neighbors of a decades-old Treme bar and performance venue are circulating a petition to prevent its

closure. The Little People’s Place (1226 Barracks St.) is among a handful of historic neighborhood clubs left in Treme, having hosted live music (launching Kermit Ruffins’ career) and social aid and pleasure clubs since the 1960s. In 1998, the bar closed briefly after a group of neighbors sued, and won, following noise and loitering complaints. Last month, the club cited an anonymous complaint tipped off to the state’s Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control (ATC) for serving liquor without a license.

Popular French Quarter tourist hangout Pirate’s Alley Cafe also had been threatened with closure last month after the city’s Department of Safety and Permits denied the cafe a nonconforming use zoning permit and license to run the cafe as a bar (it’s designated as a restaurant, though it makes most of its sales as a bar). Owners Thais Solano and Tony Seville will appear before the Board of Zoning Adjustments at 1 p.m. Monday, June 13.

After years of construction and renovation, Jacob Martin’s Aquarium Gallery and Studios on Montegut Street in Bywater offered an alternative art space and working studios for local artists, from a recent exhibit inspired by Gulf Coast birds to another offering a cyberpunk vision of oil- and gas-ravaged Norco. In the early morning of June 1, a four-alarm fire destroyed most of the two-story camelback. More than 70 firefighters helped bring the blaze under control within two hours. The fire left four tenants without a home. An online fundraiser is collecting donations to help rebuild the gallery and studios.

7. Shocked at the Broad In his acclaimed 2013 documentary Shell Shocked, New Orleans-based filmmaker John Richie examined the grim realities of New Orleans youth exposed to gun violence. He premieres his next film, 91%: A Film About Gun Violence in America, at The Broad Theater (636 N. Broad St.) over three nights this week (7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, June 10-11 and 5 p.m. Sunday, June 12). A discussion follows each screening.

The film (see review, p. 36) explores the country’s background check policies and political deadlock on the issue and shares the stories of people impacted by gun violence.

“I have yet to find another city that has been plagued with the gross level of gun violence experienced here,” Richie said.

“I love this place, and I can’t think of a better place to start this discussion.”

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Black and Gold veteran minicamp The New Orleans Saints will hold the team’s annual veteran minicamp June 14-16 at Saints headquarters in Metairie, and the team’s practices will be free and open to fans. Gates open at 10:15 a.m. and practices run from 11 a.m. to 1:20 p.m. Security will be similar to game day at the Superdome.

In case of bad weather, practice will be moved indoors and closed to the public.

9. Art and coastal loss Artist Dawn DeDeaux is asking New Orleanians to join representatives from the United Houma Nation and Terrebonne Parish on Island Road between Pointe-aux-Chenes and Isle de Jean Charles June 25. It’s an area many (including the federal government, which recently started resettlement programs) consider ground zero for the vanishing coast.

Participants will stand in formations that spell the word “home”; planes and drone cameras will capture the image from overhead. A party will follow at the Isle de Jean Charles marina to encourage meetings between people whose lives, livelihoods and culture are affected by coastal land loss. Buses will leave from the Contemporary Arts Center. For more information, visit www.prospectneworleans.org.

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Times for a correction The New York Times loves New Orleans, but its latest travel piece — “New Orleans is For Families, Too” — drew some online hoots. The paper ran a correction last week: “An earlier version of this article misstated part of the name of a green space in the French Quarter. It is Jackson Square, not Jackson Park. The article referred incorrectly to a sight-seeing carriage. It was led by a mule, not a donkey,” the editor’s note said. “And the article misstated part of the names of two streets.

They are Frenchmen Street, not Frenchmen’s Street, and Washington Avenue, not Washington Street.”

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Hey Blake, We take same day appointm ents and walk-ins.

I came across this fun photo and wondered if you knew anything about it. Is this the old Pelican Lanes in Metairie?

Dear reader, You’re looking at what some have called “The World’s Best-Dressed Bowling Team,” a group of local women who loved designing and wearing their costumes almost as much as bowling in them. They are the Zodiacs of New Orleans, a bowling team founded in 1969 that traveled the country for bowling tournaments.

The founder of the Zodiacs, Linda Prattini, says the photo show here was taken at the old Pelican Lanes bowling alley on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, today the site of Barnes & Noble bookstore.

The bowling alley, which opened in 1961, was an early headquarters and team sponsor for the Zodiacs.

The costumes were their calling card: full-length formal gowns that would break away at the knees, decorated with beads and sequins depicting the signs of the Zodiac.

Originally, Prattini said, the costumes were to protest the dress code. The Zodiacs broke the rules in style. “We wore the dresses, long white gloves and high-heeled shoes,” she said. “We went out on the lanes and did a modified New Orleans strip — peeled off the gloves, threw them, kicked off the high-heeled shoes, ripped off the bottom of the dress and bowled.”

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The Zodiacs bowling team designed Carnival-style costumes to attend national bowling tournaments. Linda Prattini (third from left) still bowls.

Founding Zodiacs members shown in the photo are, from left to right: Frances Plaia, Anna Western, Linda Prattini, Mary Refre and Doris Matthews. They designed dresses in different themes each year, keeping the theme secret until they showed up at that year’s tournament. Often the themes matched the tournament locations (oil drilling rigs in Tulsa, the Indy 500 in Indianapolis and The Wizard of Oz in Kansas).

The Zodiacs are still active, although Prattini is the only founder who is still bowling. This past weekend, the United States Bowling Congress in Las Vegas honored her for participating in 50 consecutive women’s national championship tournaments.

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Dutch Alley, an area behind the French Market, is named in honor of former Mayor Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial, whose administration made several improvements to the market area. Look for three statues there depicting New Orleanians who might have worked or shopped at the market in centuries gone by. One is Martha — A Market Customer, a bronze sculpture by Paul Perret of a Victorian-era woman seated on a bench. In her lap she holds a basket with fruits and vegetables. Nearby is Jacques the Butcher by Eric Kaposta. The bronze sculpture is a life-sized male figure of a butcher. Then there’s a more modern-looking Michelle. Also by Perret, the statue of a woman seated on the ledge of a fountain wearing a T-shirt and shorts was dedicated in 1984.

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Beatings will continue until …

IN CALLING STATE LAWMAKERS BACK INTO YET ANOTHER SPECIAL SESSION just 30 minutes

after the annual regular session adjourns this week, Gov. John Bel Edwards seems to have adopted the jocular admonition, “Beatings will continue until morale improves.”

The beatings, in this case, are the painful choices legislators must make these days: raise taxes or cut critical (and popular) programs such as public hospitals and TOPS college scholarships.

Edwards is determined to keep lawmakers in session until they improve the state’s fiscal morale by raising taxes.

The governor has been accused of holding the beloved TOPS program hostage to get lawmakers to raise taxes, and that’s a fair criticism. It’s also an effective political strategy. Let’s face it: nobody wants to raise taxes for better prisons. But if people think their kids are going to lose their shot at a TOPS scholarship — watch out.

Raising taxes is particularly difficult for Democrat Edwards, who must navigate Republican majorities in both the House and Senate.

The House is the real battleground; it is larger, more partisan and more independent than the Upper Chamber, which tends to side with whoever is governor.

In recent weeks, as the regular session ground toward a typically fitful conclusion (lawmakers must adjourn by 6 p.m. Monday, June 6), Edwards appeared to gain some traction on the fiscal front. Earlier, the House had refused to go along with the Appropriations Committee’s version of the budget, which funded TOPS at the expense of public hospitals. Instead, House members handed Appropriations Chairman (and frequent Edwards nemesis) Rep. Cameron Henry a public defeat by restoring much of the hospitals’ funding.

The Senate put even more money into health care, slashing TOPS to less than half of full funding. It’s not that senators don’t support TOPS; they were just putting Edwards into a stronger negotiating position.

TOPS has been on the bubble since Edwards took office.

He floated the notion that the scholarship program might not survive in its present form days before his first special session began on Feb. 14. That session ended in disappointment for the governor, when Henry and House conservatives bottled up some of Edwards’ most ambitious revenue measures.

The governor appears to have learned his lesson. For the special session that begins this week, he is focusing on bills that reduce or eliminate tax breaks rather than raise tax rates. Reducing a tax exemption takes only a simple legislative majority to enact, not the two-thirds vote tax hikes require.

What about long-term fiscal reform? Apparently that’s up next year. At some point, someone other than college professors must say the obvious: We need to go back to where we were in 2006 — before Govs. Kathleen Blanco and Bobby Jindal convinced lawmakers to water down, then gut, the Stelly Plan. We also should clean up tax exemptions across the board and lower rates. A good rule of thumb is “simpler is better.”

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Russ, Janya and Damian Elvis Mercado run Bar Redux in Bywater.

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TUCKED AWAY IN BYWATER, THE BRIGHT PURPLE EXTERIOR AT BAR REDUX (801 Poland

Ave., 504-592-7083; www. barredux.com) turns heads.

Its eclectic ambience and breezy courtyard keep locals coming back.

“Originally, we thought about opening in the French Quarter and I’m so glad we didn’t because that’s so not us,” says Janya Mercado, who co-owns the bar with her husband Russ. “We really like being part of the community and part of this neighborhood.

We have people who have become our friends that come in five to seven times a week.”

New York transplants Russ, Janya and their son Damian Elvis Mercado opened Bar Redux in 2014.

They invite local artists to workshop or perform new material in the bar. For the trio, what started out as a place for locals to grab a drink has turned into a platform for young creative people.

“This space can become whatever we need it to be,” Janya says.

“We just move the furniture around.

Here we give you the stage and let you create. We will help and share ideas, but here [artists] are not stifled — they can create whatever they want.”

Artist Gill Smitherman recently exhibited prints and paintings in the bar. While Smitherman’s art was hanging inside, singer-song-

SHOPPING NEWS TRUE RELIGION (739 Canal St., www. truereligion.com) opens Saturday, June 11. The 1,936-square-foot storefront will house a premium denim bar.

PJ’S COFFEE (citywide; www.pjscoffee. com) offers customers a free 16-ounce NUMI Organic High Mountain black iced tea Friday, June 10.

The giveaway celebrates National Iced Tea Day.

writers Lady Lyricist and Dreaming Dingo performed outside.

The bar serves drinks and Caribbean-tinged pub grub made by Russ. The menu fluctuates depending on what Russ feels like cooking and what customers request.

“We put the kitchen together two weeks before we opened and we had hamburgers on the menu, nothing else,” Russ says. “Really, the neighborhood made up the menu.

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I would pick a special, put it on the chalkboard, make it and take it off.

If my customers asked me, ‘When are you going to make that again?’ then I would add it to the menu.”

During the summer, the bar hosts performances by singers, comedians and burlesque dancers. Russ says the bar’s variety makes it unique.

“Our motto is ‘Come as you are, stay as you like,’” he says.

LIONHEART PRINTS (8723 Oak St., 504-3153215; www.lionheartprints. com) recently celebrated the grand opening of its storefront. Launched in 2014 by designer Liz Maute Cooke, the brand consists of stationery, cards, prints, gifts and apparel. The store will host workshops and features a design studio.

SWEET PEA & TULIP BOUTIQUE (610 Toulouse St.; 618 Chartres St., 504-523-4119; www.sweetpeaandtulip. com) recently celebrated the grand opening of its Toulouse Street location.

The shop features women’s apparel, accessories, T-shirts and gifts.

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Italian renaissance

Not-so-little Debbie LOCAL BAKING CONCERN DEBBIE DOES DOBERGE has found a store-

Michael Gulotta’s refreshing take on Italian cuisine

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund CHEF MICHAEL GULOTTA HONED HIS SKILLS DURING HIS SIX-YEAR TENURE AT CHEF JOHN BESH’S FLAGSHIP, AUGUST.

At MoPho, his Mid-City homage to popular Vietnamese dishes, he wowed diners with creative spins on Southeast Asian dishes fused with Southern soul.

For the menu at his Italian concept Tana, inside the Tulane Avenue cocktail bar Treo, Gulotta taps into his Sicilian background in beautiful and surprising ways.

Italian food is common in New Orleans, but the dishes at Tana feel unrestrained and daring, breathing new life into the cuisine. Gulotta’s experience exploring the nuances between Southeast Asian flavors and New Orleans’ own culinary lexicon may have helped, because at Tana, tradition also is tweaked to feature ingredients that surprise and dazzle, highlighting a short menu of fresh pastas, seafood and vegetables.

Garum, a Roman-style fish sauce similar to Vietnamese nuoc mam, is used to dress charred broccoli nestling cured kumquats and almonds.

Ribbons of mint and red chilies add the slightest touch of heat and freshness.

It’s a bright, lively dish in which flavors of smoke, spice and citrus vie for the spotlight.

Though the kitchen shows off modern techniques, house-made pastas are rustic in design. When a towering pile of unevenly shaped cornmeal garganelli arrives, the scent of freshly milled corn wafts off the dish, giving it an earthy, bucolic feel. Crab butter and Florida bottarga add briny and creamy qualities, while beef jus imparts a deeper, heartier dimension.

WHERE

3835 Tulane Ave., (504) 304-4878; www.treonola.com

Spice finds its way into a number of dishes, delivering more heat than one might expect from Italian food.

Diners wouldn’t know it by looking at the menu, but the kitchen tucks Calabrian chilies into fusilli pasta tossed with sweet acorn squash, caramelized fennel and bacon. That light touch of heat balances a dish that otherwise might come off as heavy or cloying.

Those chilies also appear in a standout dish of thick roasted garlic spaghetti snaked around fat Florida clams and hot sausage. Topped with a generous shower of buttery and spicy pangrattato (Italian-style breadcrumbs), the dish has deep flavors and somehow is warming and hearty yet briny and fresh all at once.

The menu isn’t exclusively devoted to seafood, but it gets prominent placement, a nod to the coastal-inspired dishes of Liguria, the crescent-shaped slice of Italy hugging the Mediterranean, where Gulotta spent time working after school.

Fried oysters are served with a fresh tomato medley and dollops of creamy Parmesan mousse. The citrus-forward dish is decorated with cured kumquat rind and thick bacon lardons and is an addictive appetizer that tastes as good as it looks.

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garlic spaghetti with clams, grilled branzino, fusilli with acorn squash

Chef Michael Gulotta’s sweet pea and goat cheese tortelli over port trotter ragu with steamed goat’s milk.

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Grilled branzino has firm yet flaky skin beneath a crispy flavorful exterior dotted with carrot-top chermoula rich with cumin, herbs and garlic. It’s a beautiful dish, completed with roasted potatoes and baby carrots, painted with strokes of harissa oil and decorated with fresh herbs and spicy cashew bits — an explosion of texture, color and taste.

The menu is short, and the vegetarian selection is scant. A warm Thomasville Tomme fonduta served with rustic hunks of dark bread — though delicious — isn’t substantial enough to be an entree.

The most surprising thing about Tana is that, despite his recent accolades (including being named one of Food & Wine magazine’s best new chefs), Gulotta’s latest project still feels like somewhat of a secret. That shouldn’t be the case for much longer.

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front and combined the pastry concept with cocktails at the new Bakery Bar (1179 Annunciation St., 504-616-2330; www.debbiedoesdoberge), where the concept is “cake, cocktails and savories.”

The setting is the Lower Garden District — the old location of Eleven 79. The vibe is casual and comfortable with a light-filled dessert case and a dark whiskey-lined bar.

Local bakers Charlotte McGehee and Charles Mary IV teamed up with Jeff Schwartz of Coquette and Twelve Mile Limit (which originally sold Debbie Does Doberge goods).

Mary does much of the baking, while Schwartz creates craft cocktails, teaches cocktail history at the bar and runs the operation.

Doberge purists will find chocolate and lemon at Bakery Bar (calm down; you can specialorder half-and-half cakes), but the company’s website also lists salted caramel, sweet potato pie, peanut butterscotch, s’mores and other options. Elvis Red Velvet is red velvet cake filled with peanut butter and banana pudding filling and peanut butter and bacon fondant — cayenne optional.

Guinness is on tap and wine and craft cocktails are on the menu.

Drinks can be ordered alone or with cheese and charcuterie plates, hot pork pot pies or pimiento cheese “sconewiches.”

Bakery Bar is open from 10 a.m. to midnight Tuesday through Sunday. — KRISTINE FROEBA | UPTOWN MESSENGER

Make it ripe foundation THE CREOLE TOMATO WILL GET ITS ANNUAL ATTENTION during a

two-day festival starting June 11.

The French Market Creole Tomato Festival, now in its 30th year, is dedicated to the Louisiana tomato, which is popular during summer and is widely used by many restaurants in New Orleans.

“I cook with Creole tomatoes as soon as I can get my hands on them, when they are in season from May to August,” says chef Andrea Apuzzo of Andrea’s restaurant in Metairie. “They are pulpier than the regular tomatoes.

Also, they are very flavorful and

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Chicken Festival is set to take place Sept. 25 in Lafayette Square.

“One of my friends said facetiously that we should organize a fried chicken festival,” says festival organizer Cleveland Spears III, president/CEO of the Spears Group. “But my eyes lit up, and I said to her that it’s a great idea.”

The free outdoor festival will include events such as the fried chicken wing eating contest and the best fried chicken contest to be judged by local and national food writers, bloggers and critics.

There will be live entertainment and more than 20 restaurants will present their unique versions of the Southern classic. For more information, visit www.friedchickenfestival. com. — ZAYN ABIDIN

Bearding, in good taste THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION’S TASTE AMERICA TOUR stops in

New Orleans Sept. 30-Oct. 1 for a weekend of tastings, cooking demonstrations and special events.

Each stop on the 10-city tour features a dinner helmed by notable chefs. At the New Orleans event, Butter executive chef and Iron Chef alumnus Alex Guarnaschelli will join local chefs Donald Link, Jeremy Fogg and Eric Damidot to create the menu for the opening-night “A Night of Culinary Stars” dinner at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans.

Tickets for the dinner go on sale this month at www.jbftasteamerica.org. — KAT STROMQUIST

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have a really nice aroma.” Apuzzo will demonstrate how to make tomato mozzarella caprese salad on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Louisiana Cookin’ Culinary Stage.

Other chefs conducting cooking demonstrations include Kevin Belton, Brad McGehee, Michael Farrell and Ryan Haigler.

“It’s a very pleasant way to see what’s new at the French Market and see excellent live music, sample a lot of local food and see the market ‘alive’ and in action,” says Amy Kirk, marketing director for French Market.

A second line will kick off the festivities on Saturday, which also include a tomato eating contest.

The festival grows from two to four live music stages this year and will include performances by Big Daddy O, All Around Brass Band, Smoky Greenwell, Royal Rounders and others. Food vendors include Bistreaux at the Bank (deep-fried BLTs), Cafe Dauphine (catfish courtbouillon), Loretta’s Authentic Pralines (crab-tomato beignets), Superior Seafood (Creole tomato shrimp ceviche), George’s Produce (Pontchartrain salad) and more.

The free festival will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. both days.

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EAT+DRINK 3-COURSE INTERVIEW

Michael Doyle CHEF IT’S BEEN LESS THAN A YEAR SINCE CHEF MICHAEL DOYLE CLOSED HIS FARM-TO-TABLE RESTAURANT MAUREPAS FOODS IN BYWATER.

Since then, Doyle has been teaching high school students how to cook at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and he consults at the NOCCA Institute’s cafe and restaurant, Press Street Station. Doyle spoke with Gambit about teaching and the Bywater restaurant scene.

How have your teaching experiences been?

DOYLE: The opportunity came up shortly after Maurepas (Foods) closed, and it was really more daunting an experience than running a kitchen. ... I hadn’t walked into a high school since I graduated from one.

People tend to learn at their own pace and come in with their own backgrounds and experiences. With the high school students, it’s an entirely different thing (than restaurants), where you can’t expect the same type of life experience, but at the same time, you’re correct to expect a lot more intellectual engagement. You really do find yourself shifting focus.

The differences are not as stark as you’d expect them to be. Working as a chef and a sous chef, you spend a lot of time teaching. The biggest differences were from the planning end: you have (students) for two and a half hours a day. You have to modify what you can tackle in that timeframe. It’s very similar to a chef position in that you have to have that restraint to not jump in and do things yourself. A lot of people make mistakes; you have to work with them and show patience and be a positive force with good energy. You’re working with kids and so you don’t get to brood. That’s not part of the job.

You’re part of their support system, and you’re part of their life in and out of school. You develop a much greater concern for their well-being than you would in a work setting.

What surprised you the most about teaching?

D: The thing that surprised me the most was how self-possessed and focused the students are. They are so incredibly engaged in it. They actually really want to be there; they hang out there after school.

My own personal high school expe-

rience was certainly not one where I was coming in with renewed optimism every day to learn new things and tackle new challenges.

The kids that graduated this year were looking at things from event management to sustainable agriculture. To me, what was so interesting is that they come in with the notion that they’re going to be chefs — and many of them do go on to work in the industry — but a lot of them really begin to think about food community, agriculture, personal relationships all the way down to problem-solving in that same way you would find in the hospitality industry.

Years ago, you’d work with 21-, 22-year-old kids who wanted to be these killer line cooks who had real sharp knives and would go out and party every night, and that isn’t at all what these kids I worked with seemed to take from it. What they seemed to take out of it was the satisfaction they get out of preparing meals and how they can use that to pursue what interests them. They’re kids — they want to change the world.

The glamour that they took out of the lifestyle was very different than what would have attracted me to cooking when I was their age. It was a much more forgiving and welcoming and natural take on it all.

How do you see the Bywater restaurant landscape changing?

D: It had its first little wave. I think that things are changing and that was the first run. Now, they’re figuring out where it is. There seem to be some savvy operators coming in. They’ve watched everybody do it the first time around, and now they’re ready to give it a go. There’s still Satsuma (Cafe), The Joint, Mariza, Bacchanal — and everybody is doing great. — HELEN FREUND

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the 30th anniversary of the release of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with a screening June 8 at Second Line Brewing (433 N. Bernadotte St., 504-248-8979; www. secondlinebrewing. com) and a Mid-City pub crawl on June 11.

Second Line Brewing expands its taproom hours to Wednesdays starting June 8, and pre-registration for the pub crawl and parade is available there during the 7:30 p.m. film screening. Pre-registration tickets are $25 and also can be purchased online for $20 plus fees. On-site registration is $30 at Bayou Beer Garden (326 N. Jefferson Davis Parkway, 504-3029357; www.bayoubeergarden. com) starting at 2:30 p.m. June 11.

The pub crawl leaves Bayou Beer Garden at 4 p.m. and is scheduled to arrive at Second Line Brewing by 8 p.m. Registration is good for free beer at pub crawl stops as well as prizes. There is a costume contest and the winners will be announced at the brewery.

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Company (www.socraftbeer.com) in Baton Rouge announced its taproom is now open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays, with free tours at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. The taproom offers the brewery’s first two beers, Red Stick Rye and Pompous Pelican double IPA, on draft, and there are T-shirts and pint glasses for sale.

Co-founders Wes Hedges and Joseph Picou hope to expand the taproom hours this summer and to add a third beer, a locally sourced honey ale, for fall.

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2015 Chateau de Berne Impatience Rose Cotes de Provence, France Retail $16-$20

DRY ROSE IS ON A ROLL, with sales volumes increasing by 20-40 percent annually and demand extending year round.

France’s Provence has seen rose exports rising for 11 consecutive years. The style appeals to many wine drinkers: It’s refreshing, lower in alcohol and offers vibrant acidity that goes with almost any food. Most roses aren’t very complicated but have enough backbone and silky tannins to accompany everything from grilled meats to fresh fruit. The Chateau de Berne has made wine since 1750. A blend of Grenache and Cinsault, the wine was vinified and matured in double-bottom stainless steel tanks. In the glass, the well-balanced wine offers whiffs of red berries, floral notes and wet stone with subtle flavors of strawberries, raspberries, hints of blood orange, minerality and fresh acidity on the finish. Serve chilled. Great for sipping with deviled eggs, shrimp remoulade, sushi, boiled crawfish, chicken salad, barbecue, cheese boards and charcuterie. Buy it at: Zuppardo’s Family Supermarket; The Fresh Market; Langenstein’s; Robert Fresh Market; Rouses Supermarket; Breaux Mart and Acquistapace’s Supermarket.

Drink it at: Charlie’s Steak House and Joey K’s.

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Live Oak Supper Club benefit dinner 7 p.m.-10 p.m. Thursday Felicity Church, 1220 Felicity St. www.liveoaksupperclub.eventbrite.com Gracie Evans-Gan, formerly of Herbsaint, prepares a dinner to benefit the Lower Garden District Parks & Fountain Fund. The menu includes roasted chicken with harissa and cucumber salsa; succotash with zucchini, corn and herbs; Louisiana popcorn rice and chickpea pilaf with curry; Creole tomato and peach salad with basil and cashew cream; and seasonal fruit hand pies. Cocktails and wine included. Tickets $80.

JUNE 11

In the SoFAB Kitchen with Boo Macomber Noon Saturday Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405 www.natfab.org Janice “Boo” Macomber grew up in Abbeville, Louisiana, and absorbed the cooking influences of her father’s Cajun family and her mother’s Sicilian heritage. She presents recipes from her book Tastes, Tails & Tales with the High Priestess of the Bayou. Food samples available while supplies last. Free with regular museum admission.

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Cajun Brunch & Dance 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday The Tigermen Den, 3113 Royal St. www.thetigermenden.com The monthly brunch features a menu of Cajun dishes with vegan and vegetarian options. There is music by Mid-City Aces and a dance lesson at 1 p.m. Admission $10 (does not include food).

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PEOPLE IN HEALTH 2016

What’s Inside: Fun ways to get fit Concussion tips Summer health events PIH profiles

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Dr. Todd J. Canatella, DDS

What sets your business apart?

Clinical Excellence. Advanced Technology. Comprehensive Dentistry. Personal Attention.

Where did you attend school?

Dr. Canatella is a New Orleans native and graduated from Holy Cross, earned his undergraduate degree at LSU and then completed his dental degree at the LSU School of Dentistry.

If you’re looking for a caring and exceptional New Orleans dentist, then look no further.

From your first contact with our office, you will notice that Canatella Dental is not your typical dental practice. We’ve worked hard to build an exceptional team of dedicated, caring and experienced professionals committed to the dental health of you and your family.

At Canatella Dental, your comfort and confidence are just as important as your teeth.

That’s why we take great care of both the smile and the person behind it. Our mission is to provide the highest quality dentistry and patient care available. We offer a full range of treatment options that can be personalized to meet your unique needs and expectations, such as Cosmetic and Restorative dentistry, including Whitening, Veneers, Implants and Custom made Crowns in a single visit using Cerec.

Canatella Dental • 101 W. Robert E. Lee Blvd. Suite 305 • 504-282-0700 • www.Canatelladental.com

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What’s your company motto?

Our vision is to improve the lives of those we serve in New Orleans. We accomplish this by delivering clinical excellence, in a friendly, positive and professional environment.

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NOLA Smiles Dental Solutions

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What is your favorite piece of medical / health advice?

Limiting your sugar intake is one of the best things you can do for your both your dental and overall health.

Who is your local health mentor?

Misty, at Rolfista, helps me with my musculoskeletal pain through Rolfing and she offers healthy lifestyle advice.

What sets your business apart?

I rely on my unique background, extensive training, modern technology, and excellent team to solve complex dental problems.

New Orleans is famous for its delicious food, but can you savor fine dining without good dental health?

Since 2007, it’s been our mission to restore smiles so you can enjoy eating, laughing, and talking without worrying about your teeth. Many people throughout New Orleans have avoided the dentist for decades, so we have streamlined solutions in place for such situations. If you’re missing one or more teeth, dental implants are often the best treatment. Dr. Natalie Jackson can provide you with optimal care and peace of mind via computer-guided implant surgery.

Fear is a common barrier, but with oral sedation dentistry you can get years of care caught up in only a handful of appointments. For patients who are short on time, we use our in-office CAD/ CAM technology to manufacture and deliver durable, lifelike restorations in only one visit.

We focus on the needs of older patients, and even orthodontic treatment is no exception – you don’t have to be a kid to have straight teeth anymore!

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Dr. Burkenstock’s Skin Body Health As an Internal Medicine Specialist SKIN: with extensive studies in Anti-Aging,

Skin Rejuvenation and Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Burkenstock’s goal is to help everyone achieve fabulous health & beautiful skin, beginning at any age.

Dr. Burkenstock has trained with top luminaries around the world to provide the best results from Anti-Aging treatments, including Lasers, Botox and Wrinkle Fillers. As a doctor and an artist, she turns back the hands of time for each client.

BODY:

Using state of the art aesthetic laser technology, Dr. Burkenstock can effectively treat leg veins, scars & remove unwanted hair and tattoos.

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WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE PIECE OF MEDICAL ADVICE?

WHAT SETS YOUR BUSINESS APART?

As a doctor who is passionate about helping patients and as a person who struggled with weight gain, I developed a natural, No Fad, No Pills “Dare to Be Thin” program for Skinny Success®. It’s not about starving oneself, but rather addressing all 7 variables and following a step-by-step approach personalized for you based on your DNA and more.

We are a complete Preventative Care, Age Management and Skin Institute offering a blend of Holistic and Internal Medicine disciplines - “East Meets West.” In addition to our al la carte services, we offer a yearly, premium concierge program to help you achieve your optimum health.

Our proprietary programs include:

Brain Reboot – An intense, natural amino acid

treatment program to mitigate the effects of stress, depression, addictions or exhaustion. Some reports propose that nutrition, combined with programs such as this, may help with issues seen in Autism, Alzheimer’s, Brain Injuries and Parkinson’s.

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Dr. Burkenstock’s

Dr. Burkenstock has become known for using DNA Genes to customize plans for clients interested in losing weight, managing mood issues & improving skin complexion. Additional personalized services include: prevention and management of diabetes, blood pressure, menopause and erectile dysfunction.

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What do you do for your own personal wellness?

Incorporating mind and body: Meditation is part of my daily practice. I enjoy multiple intense/ advanced TRX workouts a week but also take time daily for stretching, foam rolling and incorporating a restorative workout between the more intense days.

What is your favorite New Orleans restaurant?

Cafe Amelie

HEADS UP #CONCUSSIONS Signs of concussion can be hard to discern.

BY K ANDACE POWER GR AVE S

A CONCUSSION IS AN INJURY TO THE BRAIN that results in temporary loss of normal brain function and usually is caused by a blow to the head, according to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). Often there are no outward signs of head trauma; many people never lose consciousness. Symptoms can begin immediately or weeks or months after an injury.

Below are the causes of concussions, as well as a list of symptoms and signs of injury.

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BY LAR A KRUPICK A

heartbreaking moments for the mother of a concussed teenager IT HAPPENS IN A FLASH. A tangle of legs and arms in a tussle over the ball during a high school girls’ soccer game. My daughter takes an elbow to the head that makes her stumble, but she pushes on for the remaining minutes of the game.

No one — coaches, teammates or spectators — notice she’s been hit. She comes off the field at the end of the game complaining of a headache. Unbeknownst to me, she later complains to her father of nausea.

At the time we are unaware these symptoms are signs of an injury that will last for six months.

Little do I know of the grief that awaits me as her mother, heartbreaking moments such as: 1. When the school nurse calls to deliver the news that our teen is complaining of tunnel vision and feeling foggy-brained. Troubling

symptoms. Yet I have sent her to school for three days thinking it was her usual headache. I regret not taking her to a doctor sooner, especially when a concussion test administered by the school trainer conclusively diagnoses the injury I missed.

2. Realizing I misinterpreted the pediatrician’s follow-up instructions as the doctor chews me out the next day when I call to ask what medication to give our teen for the headache after school.

Because why did our teen attend classes when she should be at home in a dark room with no light, no sound, no mental stimulation of any sort?

3. Seeing the empty chair at our table when our family gathers that night for dinner as usual. And the lack of stories about advanced placement class agonies and overdone rolling of eyes and groaning at Dad’s wry jokes. Our youngest manages to complete a full sentence without her gregarious sister there to interrupt. A small consolation for our teen’s absence.

4. When friends text our daughter their reports of school antics and PAGE 8

Assaults

Almost 75 percent occur in 15- to 44- year-olds

Falls

40.5%

14.3%

Most likely to occur in ages birth to 14 and 65 and older

Vehicle accidents

15.5%

19%

Accidental blunt trauma to the head

Other & Unknown [ CDC STATISTICS, 2006-2010 ]

SYMPTOMS

• Nausea or vomiting (early stages) • Difficulty remembering new information, concentrating and thinking quickly and clearly • Headache • Blurry vision • Dizziness, balance problems • Sensitivity to light • Bothered by noise • Lack of energy • Nervous or anxious • Sleeping too much, too little or trouble falling asleep • Heightened emotions • Irritable • Ringing in the ears • Loss of smell or taste

(being hit in the head or hitting the head against something)

DANGER SIGNS Seek medical help

• Drowsy and can’t be fully wakened • Persistent vomiting or nausea • Pupils are different sizes • Convulsions or seizures • Confusion, can’t recognize familiar things • Loses consciousness • Crying and can’t be consoled • Prolonged headache that worsens and won’t go away • Physical weakness, numbness or loss of coordination • Can’t perform tasks that require sequential steps • Slurred speech • Unusual behavior • Loss of appetite and refusal to eat

— Sources: CDC and AANS

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Concussions

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weekend plans two weeks into her isolation, hoping she’ll join them soon. But our child appears to be no better, still curled up in her hushed bedroom, fleece blankets draped over windows. She sleeps most of the day, emerging only at night to shower in a dimly lit bathroom. I ache to see her regain her normal teenage life.

5. When we visit a neurologist five weeks after the concussion-causing bump and the nurse practitioner describes our teen’s condition as a mild traumatic brain injury.

I gloss over the terminology until I have to relay it to my husband. Then it hits me with a shudder: brain injury.

6. When the same nurse practitioner looks me in the eye and instructs that if my child exhibits symptoms of depression I am to ask her point-blank, “Are you feeling suicidal?” I hope beyond hope that I will not have any cause to ask this. But the nurse’s insistence makes me fear that I will.

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7. Working on a plan with support staff at the high school to help my child finish her freshman year while attending half days.

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The school nurse assures me that during my teen’s scheduled gym class there will be a bed reserved for her in the health office so she can rest her brain. As I check out later at the attendance window, I chat with the receptionist there who has become familiar with my voice over the past few weeks. And I realize my daughter and I are discovering a side of the education system we never expected to experience.

8. My child breaking down sobbing at the slightest provocation for the third time in a day. When I ask her why, she says she does not know. It happens again the next day and the next. Until one day she spends an entire evening in her bed crying. I ask the dreaded question: Do you feel suicidal?

She does not answer and I spend the night curled up beside her, hand gripping her shoulder. The following day I call the doctor to ask them to switch her medication. Soon after, the uncontrolled crying stops.

9. When my ordinarily bright child slumps at our kitchen counter, weeping because she cannot understand math. I recall recent cognitive tests run by a neuropsychologist

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indicating her abilities have been compromised by the injury. But she does not get what those results mean. And she does not get math right now either. What she desperately wants to get is an A in the class, injury or no.

10. When we are hosting our annual barbecue with a backyard full of our favorite people and I notice my daughter following her friends around in a daze before quietly retreating to her room to be alone. I watch the teens having a water balloon fight later and wonder again how long until my child can take part in the fun, uninterrupted by pain.

Certainly worse injuries or illnesses could happen to our child. And I find reassurance along the way that she will recovery fully, without lasting effects — eventually. But a sense of vulnerability and helplessness still catch me off-guard at times. Because this is my child. And she has a concussion.

— Lara Krupicka is a journalist and mother to three girls, two of whom have experienced concussions.

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What is your favorite piece of medical/health advice?

Stop eating sugar.

What is your favorite NOLA restaurant?

I recently ate at Cavan on Magazine Street. Great fresh food and portions that don’t make you feel overstuffed.

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What is your company’s motto?

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Together

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What sets your business apart?

Our devotion to personal and precise care. Our team works tirelessly to treat illness, always remembering that we are serving living, breathing, loving human beings.

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New Orleans Boulder Lounge features 2,500 square feet of bouldering in a 125-year-old warehouse.

Class IT UP

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BY ANNA GACA

group fitness workouts to try in New Orleans.

I DIDN’T GROW UP PLAYING SPORTS; I WAS A WEAK DORK. Exercise sounded like a hassle, and I assumed I just wasn’t cut out for fitness. A lot of us have felt similar negativity about our bodies, and often that insecurity is worst when we’re surrounded by peers — in a gym, at a pool or in a locker room. But my negative attitude was working against me: A 2014 Gallup poll showed that Americans who said they exercised 30 minutes every day of the past week felt best about their physical appearance. I decided to get more serious about my routine, and to the astonishment of my younger, gym-class-hating self, I discovered I love group fitness.

Some people will always be dedicated solo exercisers. Others may value the convenience and low cost of online workout videos or fitness DVDs (check the New Orleans Public Library). Exercise in general is on a national upswing, and once-ridiculed group classes (Jazzercise,

anyone?) are experiencing a major comeback. I started going to gym classes as an experiment, but I’ve tried and enjoyed more new activities than I ever thought I would.

Communal fitness can provide friendly support, fierce competition, or any level of encouragement in between. Being surrounded by like-minded people helps everyone do his or her best, and the best instructors have killer playlists.

There’s bad technique and boring workouts, but there’s no wrong way to exercise, and no call to be judgmental about something that can benefit almost everybody.

If you begrudge your occasional jog or feel like you’re just going through the motions at the gym, it’s way past time to branch out.

New Orleans has a burgeoning crop of specialty fitness studios, but here are three I’ve tried personally.

The following is adapted from fitness columns I wrote for the Gambit website in 2015 and 2016.

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Participants in an Orangetheory class optimize their heart rates to burn fat.

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For adventure close to home

NEW ORLEANS BOULDER LOUNGE

1746 Tchoupitoulas St. 504-510-2990 www.climbnobl.com

Before visiting the New Orleans Boulder Lounge, I hadn’t climbed since elementary school. My most vivid memories were of the harness: nylon straps that rode up the inner thighs, bulging at the crotch with the power of Superman’s red undies.

The Boulder Lounge is different: it offers only bouldering, which is done without harnesses, ropes or carabiners. When you’re ready to come down, you let go — and crash into foot-thick cushioning covering most of the floor. Grabbing hold of the smooth, unfinished wood at the top of the wall is strangely rewarding, and knowing you could slip at any moment is exhilarating. The Boulder Lounge offers group climbing lessons, and it also includes a quiet room for yoga classes and a small, specialized training area with free weights, gymnastic rings and a miniature rock wall.

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Check www.nordc. org/activities/fitness for a schedule.

CITY SURF

For a different kind of beach getaway

5924 Magazine St. 504-281-4174 www.citysurffitness.com The signature City Surf workout is performed in stocking feet on an indoor surfboard strapped to a trio of squishy fitness balls and topped with a thick, rubbery black mat. My class began with a warm-up to acclimate participants’ balance, then moved on to basic surfing moves like the PAGE 15

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The Compounding Pharmacy is PCAB accredited through ACHC. Patio Drugs is a one stop shop for all of your family’s healthcare needs. Serving our community and providing exceptional customer service is the primary goal of Patio Drugs.

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What’s your company’s motto?

“We’re Large Enough to serve you, Yet, Small Enough to know you.”

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4141 Bienville St. 504-408-2602 www.orangetheoryfitness.com Orangetheory’s workout is a mix of treadmills, rowing machines, free weights and TRX suspension training straps, but its “theory” revolves around heart rate. Everyone wears a monitor on a chest strap, and heart rates are broadcast on overhead TVs. Lower levels of exertion mark you as gray, then blue, then green. When you hit 84 percent of your hypothetical maximum capacity, you’re pushed into the exalted “orange zone.” To my surprise, the public-shaming aspect didn’t faze me too much; instead, I felt motivated and aware. The best part of Orangetheory is the brand-new equipment, including treadmills with built-in fans and rowing machines that draw their resistance from translucent tanks of real water that make satisfying whirling noises as you “row” through it.

If you already have a gym membership, there may be group classes you can attend at no extra cost.

The New Orleans Recreation Development Commission offers FREE classes including: yoga boot camp Zumba

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LA/SPCA Community Clinic

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The Louisiana SPCA Community Clinic sponsored by PetSmart Charities has spayed/neutered more than 50,000 animals in the Greater New Orleans area.

In addition to affordable spay/ neuter, the Community Clinic also offers low-cost wellness visits, heartworm treatment, microchipping, vaccinations, flea and heartworm preventatives and much more. Our new facility spans almost 8,000 sq. ft. and houses 5 exam rooms, 2 surgical suites, 5 heartworm treatment condos and an on-site pharmacy.

Our skilled team of veterinarians hail from around the country and have a combined experience of 115 years.

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What is your favorite piece of medical / health advice?

Heartworms is the #1 medical concern for pets living in south Louisiana. Remember to give your pet a monthly preventative or bi-annual ProHeart 6 injection!

1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. • 504-363-1333 (clinic) • 504-368-5191 (main) www.la-spca.org/clinic

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What is your favorite piece of medical / health advice?

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pop up (moving from lying to standing on the board) and the duck dive (which, to the nonsurfer, feels similar to a yoga chaturanga).

Unlike surfing in the ocean, you can put one foot on the floor when you lose balance — which I did. The board also serves as a bench for tricep dips and a wobble board for lunges and squats, performed HIIT-style in 30-second increments. Indoor surfing isn’t cheap ($22 for an a la carte class), but it’s a feel-good, full-body workout when you can’t get to the beach.

An attendee engages her core muscles at a City Surf class.

When kids need well visits, the last thing parents want is to sit in waiting rooms with sick kids.

And, when kids are sick, the last thing they want is to take a car ride to the pediatrician. House Call Pediatrics helps sick kids spend more time resting at home and less time in cars and waiting rooms. In addition to sick and well visits, the practice aims to help New Orleans’ children learn healthy lifestyle habits through nutrition and exercise education. The practice accepts most insurance networks, including Medicaid.

Favorite Piece of Medical Advice?

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Vaccinate your children.

Vaccines are safe, and so far, they’re the single greatest invention produced by the field of medicine.

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I wish I had a step-by-step list for motivating myself to work out when I don’t feel like it, but I do know this: There’s no substitute for an activity that you find challenging and enjoyable. To me, the variety of experiences offered in group classes is its own kind of reward. If none of the above sounds terribly exciting to you, there are many other options to consider: indoor cycling, Pilates, boot camp, barre, martial arts, hula hooping and a dozen types of dance. Don’t worry if you feel like a particular sport is somehow antithetical to your personality — if I believed that, I never would have realized how much I enjoy gym classes.

Innovative Suit Therapy offers Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy to children and adults with neurological impairments. We see patients with Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Developmental Delay, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury and much more. We offer traditional therapy as well as 3 week intense therapy sessions based on the patient’s need for therapy with use of the TheraSuit and the Universal Exercise Unit. These tools in therapy will increase the patient’s overall strength, balance and coordination to promote increased independence with functional skills and daily activities such as sitting, standing and walking.

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What sets your business apart?

We are the only therapy center in Louisiana certified and trained to offer pediatric and adult therapy services with the use of the TheraSuit and the Universal Exercise Unit.

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Xtreme Physical Therapy

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Xtreme Physical Therapy is a full time outpatient therapy clinic that employs a hands-on approach to patient care. We Strategically schedule patients for approximately 45-60 minutes of hands on physical therapy with licensed personnel. Our services include Rehabilitation of Orthopedics Injuries, Sports Rehabilitation and Post Surgical Patients. We also specialize in Functional Capacity Evaluation.

With two convenient locations, we are open Monday- Friday from 7:00 am - 6:00 pm with early morning, evening and Saturday appointments available. Our motto at Xtreme Physical Therapy is eXtra time, eXcellent service, eXtremely qualified.

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How long have you been in business?

Xtreme Physical Therapy has been in existence since 2003. Our Physical Therapists have been in their field for approximately 6 - 25 years.

Owners: Brian Simpson PT, LMT • Gwendolyn Johnson-Simpson, Marketing Director • Althea Jones MPT • 3300 Behrman Place, New Orleans 504-374-0015 • 9930 Lake Forest Blvd, Ste. A, New Orleans 504-245-2483

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Located next to Dorignac’s, we guarantee the type of service only a locally owned, locally operated pharmacy can provide. For 50 years, we’ve earned the trust of the River Parish region by caring for the well-being of every customer we’ve served. Now we’ve opened our newest location on Veterans Blvd. We provide customers with FREE medication consultation, 10 minute wait times, deep discounts on prescriptions, and over the counter items plus a variety of gifts.

Get to know your LOCAL pharmacist. Ask about our discounted prescriptions prices and medication synchronization.

Canon Hospice is making a difference in our community by providing quality end-of-life care to those seeking comfort and dignity while dealing with a life-limiting illness. Canon’s community involvement is extended even further through the non-profit Akula Foundation which sponsors Camp Swan, a children’s bereavement camp, Canon Hospice Health Hour of New Orleans: Saturday from Noon - 1PM on WGSO 990 AM and The Grief Resource Center (GRC) which offers educational services to health care professionals throughout the year. All Foundation services are free and open to the public.

What is your favorite piece of medical / health advice?

When incorporating changes, start small. Small changes are easier to implement and when combined, quickly add up to big results.

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What is your favorite piece of medical / health advice?

Plan ahead. Let your family know your wishes for End of Life Care.

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Wellspring Health news in brief

BY MISSY WILKINSON

for sale, and 25 percent of proceeds benefits Wounded War Heroes.

“We are dedicated to improving the health care experience for our patients, families and caregivers,” Willie Paretti, Chairman of the LRMC Board of Directors, said in a press release. “By integrating the arts into our hospital setting, we provide another layer of therapeutic care, while also improving the overall aesthetic of our facility.”

The recently opened Cobalt Medical Development Rehabilitation Hospital treats traumatic brain injuries, concussions, strokes, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic injuries, Parkinson’s and muscular-based diseases.

The American Diabetes Association (www.professional.diabetes. org) holds its 76th annual medical meeting Friday, June 10 through Tuesday, June 14 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. More than 15,000 leading health care pro-

fessionals and scientists convene to discuss innovations in diabetes treatment options and research.

Nordstrom (www.nordstrom. com) now carries Rosie G (www.rosiegstyle.com) apparel, a children’s clothing line designed by New Orleans native Grace Rose Bauer, who is 13 years old and has cystic fibrosis. A percentage of proceeds from sales benefits cystic fibrosis research.

Lakeview Regional Medical Center (LRMC) and Art House Boston have partnered for a “Healing Arts” exhibition. More than 30 pieces of art by six artists of Art House Boston are on display during hospital hours at Lakeview Regional Medical Center (95 Judge Tanner Blvd., Covington, 985-867-3800; www. lakeviewregional.com). Artworks are

“Bling the Bra Challenge,” a bra art competition from FestiGals, supporting Breastoration and the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans, is underway. Participants may register online at www.festigals.org to decorate a bra through Wednesday, July 15. There will be an online fundraising competition, and the top three custom bras will be auctioned off at a brunch July 30. Stein Mart has donated bras for participants to decorate, which can be procured by contacting Michelle Linton at michelle@festigals.org or calling (504) 524-1227. lululemon athletica (The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., 504522-3264; Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Metairie, 504-833-5053; www. lululemon.com) holds Yoga Social Club in the pavilion at Crescent Park (1008 N. Peters St.) at 5:45 p.m. every Thursday through June. Participants should bring mats, water and a towel.

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Cobalt Medical Development Rehabilitation Hospital (3701 Bienville St.), a 66,000-square-foot speech, physical and occupational therapy center, celebrated its grand opening last week. Featuring 60 private rooms and inpatient and outpatient programs, the facility employs 178 physicians, physical therapists, speech therapists, nurses and nurse assistants who treat traumatic brain injuries, concussions, strokes, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic injuries, Parkinson’s and muscular-based diseases. Patients will be received starting in July.

Julie Fortenberry, a dietitian with Touro Infirmary, hosts a free tour of the Crescent City Farmers Market (200 Broadway St., 504-8614488; www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org) from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, June 7. She can address specific health needs and will teach participants cost-effective ways to incorporate fresh, local produce into their meals.

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The LSU Health Foundation New Orleans received a $12,000 Quality of Life grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation (www. christopherreeve.org) to support its Stroke Clinic. The Stroke Clinic holds clinics twice a month for 10 months for people who have had strokes and lack access to rehabilitation services.

According to Dr. Barbara Doucet, assistant professor of occupational therapy at the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Allied Health Professions and director of the Stroke Clinic, most health insurance only pays for six months of rehabilitation. “That is why we are so grateful to the Reeve Foundation for providing funding for this invaluable program,” Doucet said in a press release. “We believe these services will have a huge impact on those people living with chronic stroke.”

For more information about the Stroke Clinic, call 504-568-4302 or 504-568-7697.

Ochsner Health System partners with Rouses, Hollygrove Market and Farm, Cleaver & Co., Edible New Orleans, Old New Orleans Louisiana Rum, New Orleans Food Co-op, Cajun Country Rice and more companies for the sixth annual Eat Local Challenge (www. nolalocavore.org). Throughout June, participants eat only food grown within a 200-mile radius of New Orleans and receive discounts to farmers markets and food workshops, meal plans and more. Ochsner’s Eat Fit NOLA program develops healthy, locally grown menu items with area chefs. Visit the website to register.

This blinged-out bra was auctioned last year

by FestiGals to raise funds for Breastoration and the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans.

Whole Foods Market Mandeville (3450 Highway 190, Mandeville, 985-231-3328; www. wholefoodsmarket.com) hosts a free yoga class by Just Breathe Yoga Studio at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 11. Participants should bring their own mats.

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C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S AT W W W. B E S T O F N E WO R L E A N S .C O M Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans. Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 or more. To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@gambitweekly.com, fax 483-3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106. Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.

AMERICAN Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www. treasurechestcasino.com — The all-youcan-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood and dishes from a variety of cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

BAR & GRILL The American Sector — 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1940; www.nationalww2museum.org/american-sector — The menu of American favorites includes a burger, oyster po-boy, Cobb salad, spaghetti and meatballs, fried chicken, Gulf fish and more. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Warehouse Grille — 869 Magazine St., (504) 322-2188; www.warehousegrille. com — The menu features upscale bar food, burgers, steaks, seafood, salads, sandwiches and noshing items.

Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily, brunch Fri.-Sun. Credit cards. $

BREAKFAST/BRUNCH Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 5618844; www.redgravycafe.com — The cafe serves rustic Italian fare including handmade pastas, ravioli and lasagna and seafood dishes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$

BURGERS Dis & Dem — Rue St. Louis Bar, 814 St. Louis St., (504) 509-7092; www. disanddem.com — The Hawaii 5-0 burger features a glazed patty, a hot sausage patty, a fried egg, bacon, cheese and grilled pineapple. No reservations.

Banks Street: breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch Tue.-Sun. St. Louis St.: lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Five Guys Burgers and Fries — 1212 S. Clearview Pkwy., Suite C, Harahan, (504) 733-5100; www.fiveguys.com — The menu features burgers, cheeseburgers and bacon cheesburgers with toppings such as grilled onions or mushrooms, tomatoes, pickles, jalapenos, hot sauce and barbecue sauce. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504)

525-8045; www.antoines.com — The coffee shop serves pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma. com — The cafe serves shrimp salad, chipotle-marinated portobello sliders, flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic and more. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees, pastries and desserts baked in house and a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Pearl Wine Co. — 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www.pearlwineco.com — The wine bar offers cheese plates. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAJUN Daisy Dukes — 121 Chartres St., (504) 561-5171; 123 Carondelet St., (504) 5222233; 5209 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 883-5513; www.daisydukesrestaurant.com — The New Orleans sampler features red beans and rice, jambalaya, a cup of gumbo, fried green tomatoes and a biscuit. Delivery available from Carondelet Street location. No reservations. New Orleans locations are open 24 hours. West Napoleon Avenue: Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Mulate’s Cajun Restaurant — 201 Julia St., (504) 522-1492; www.mulates.com — Cajun dishes include Catfish Mulalate’s, fried seafood platters, gumbo, boudin, stuffed shrimp, po-boys and more.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tres Bon Cajun Meats — 10316 Jefferson Highway, River Ridge, (504) 405-5355; www.tresbonmeats.com — The market serves brisket, pulled pork, house-made sausages and cracklings with layers of skin, fat and meat fried in hog lard. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Chez Pierre French Bakery & Cafe — 3208 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 467-3176; www.chezpierreneworleans.com — The bakery specializes in cakes and there is a breakfast menu and Vietnamese dishes. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include crispy smoked quail salad with pear and bourbon-molasses dressing. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Vinegar-braised grilled beef short ribs are served over stone-ground yellow grits with arugula and boiled peanut salad. A fried chicken breast is served over a Belgian waffle with smoked ham, aged cheddar and Steen’s mustard glaze. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — The constantly changing menu features dishes such as pan-fried Gulf flounder with kumquat-ginger sauce, crispy Brussels sprouts and sticky rice. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines. com — Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 5927083; www.barredux.com — The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread.

No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

CHINESE

Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Eggs Sardou is poached eggs over crispy artichokes with Parmesan creamed spinach and choron sauce.

Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — The menu includes Chinese and Vietnamese dishes such as sweet and spicy tilapia glazed in tangy sweet-and-spicy sauce served with bok choy. Delivery available.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/cafegentilly — Breakfast is available all day, and the creamed spinach, crawfish and Swiss cheese omelet can be served in a po-boy. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com

The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504)

467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MeMe’s Bar & Grille — 712 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 6444992; www.memesbareandgrille.com — MeMe’s serves steaks, chops and Louisiana seafood. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Messina’s Runway Cafe — 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 241-5300; www. messinasterminal.com — Jimmy Wedell seafood pasta features Gulf shrimp, Lake Pontchartrain crabmeat, crawfish, fresh herbs and angel hair pasta. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast and lunch daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter. com — Tableau’s updated Creole cuisine includes bacon-wrapped oysters en brochette served with roasted garlic butter.

Reservations resommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8882010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli offers corned beef and pastrami from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 456-6362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. The hamburger po-boy can be dressed with lettuce, mayo and tomato on French bread. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp tossed with cream sauce and pasta. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 5920223; www.weltysdeli.com — The New Orleans AK sandwich features a choice of four meats plus cheddar, provolone, pepper Jack and Swiss cheeses on a warm muffuletta bun. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

FRENCH Cafe Degas — 3127 Esplanade Ave., (504) 945-5635; www.cafedegas.com — The menu of traditional French dishes includes pate, cheese plates, salads,

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— The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations to lo mein dishes. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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angel hair pasta and Creole tomato jam.

Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Sauteed Gulf fish is prepared with smoked herb rub and served with crawfish risotto and shaved asparagus.

Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

– The Times-Picayune

Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

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Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Reservations recommended.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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Bayona Salad, any Entree and House Made Ice Cream or Sorbet.

Ignatius Eatery (3121 Magazine St., 504-899-0242; www.ignatiuseatery.com) serves an alligator po-boy with french fries.

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escargots bourguignons, mussles and fries, hanger steak with fries and garlic bordelaise and more. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $

GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” and weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — The restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — The menu features tandoori dishes with chicken, lamb, fish or shrimp, mild and spicy curries, rice dishes such as chicken, lamb or shrimp biryani, and many vegetarian items. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Meats & Wisconsin Cheese The Cajun

Cheezy Cajun

3325 ST. CLAUDE 504.265.0045 TheCheezyCajun.com

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ITALIAN Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Creative Italian dishes include roasted duck glazed with sweet Marsala and roasted garlic and served with garlic mashed potatoes. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Popular dishes include shrimp

Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca. Reservations accepted.

Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Nonna Mia Cafe & Pizzeria — 3125 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-1717; www. nonnamia.net — Shrimp Diablo features pan-seared shrimp, house-made fettuccine and spicy arrabbiata sauce.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines old world Italian favorites and pizza. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Osso buco features a veal shank with angel hair pasta and veal demi-glace. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Sushi choices include raw and cooked versions. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, including sushi, hibachi dishes, teriyaki and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Audubon Clubhouse Cafe — 6500 Magazine St., (504) 212-5282; www. auduboninstitute.org/visit/clubhouse-cafe — Crispy duck features citrus glaze, boudin, Brussels sprouts, pickled mirliton slaw and duck demi-glass. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.Fri., dinner Sun.-Fri., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Baked stuffed Creole redfish is served with crabmeat and green tomato crust,

The Red Maple — 1036 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 367-0935; www.theredmaple.com — Gulf fish Pontchartrain is grilled and topped with crabmeat and sherry mushroom sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, filled with saffron shrimp, mussels, oysters, Gulf fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons. No reservations. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EASTERN Hummus & More — 3363 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 833-9228; www.hummusandmore.com — The menu includes hummus, baba ghanoush, stuffed grape leaves, mousaka, seared halloumi, gyros, kebabs, shawarama dishes, wraps, salads and more. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www.facebook. com/casaborrega — Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup featuring pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage and avocado and tostadas on the side. No reservations. Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Casa Garcia — 8814 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 464-0354 — Chiles rellenos include one pepper stuffed with cheese and one filled with beef, and the menu also features fajitas, burritos, tacos, chimichangas, quesadillas, nachos,

OUT TO EAT Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Live Oak Cafe — 8140 Oak St., (504) 2650050; www.liveoakcafenola.com — The cafe serves huevos rancheros with corn tortillas, black beans, fried eggs, ranchero sauce, salsa and Cotija cheese. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily.

Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Signature dishes include a waffle topped with brie and blueberry compote. Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations.

Brunch and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — Stuffed gumbo features a hand-battered and fried catfish fillet atop chicken, sausage, shrimp and crabmeat gumbo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 4840841; 4445 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie,

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Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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SEAFOOD Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — The menu includes grilled whole fish, royal red shrimp with garlic butter and crab and crawfish beignets with remoulade. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 7900 Lakeshore Drive., (504) 284-2898; www.thebluecrabnola.com — The seafood restaurant serves shrimp and grits, stuffed whole flounder, fried seafood and seasonal boiled seafood. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish, oysters from the raw bar and more. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Chez Pierre French Bakery & Cafe (3208 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, 504-467-3176; www.chezpierreneworleans.com) serves an array of Vietnamese dishes.

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(504) 887-2010; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — Red beans and rice with fried chicken is a Monday and Wednesday special.

The roast beef po-boy features housecooked roast beef on Gendusa Bakery bread and is dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $

PIZZA Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Jumbo Gulf shrimp are sauteed with sherry, tomatoes, white wine, basil, garlic and butter and served over angel hair pasta. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil.

No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Diners can build their own calzones or pies from a list of toppings. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — The neighborhood bar and restaurant offers a menu of pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and bar noshing items. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS The Big Cheezy — 422 S. Broad St., (504) 302-2598; www.thebigcheezy.com — The menu of gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches includes a namesake triple-decker Big Cheezy with Gouda, Gruyere, pepper Jack, cheddar, mozzarella and Monterey Jack on challah bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $ Liberty Cheesesteaks — 5031 Freret St., (504) 875-4447; www.libertycheesesteaks.com — The Buffalo chicken steak features chicken breast dressed with wing sauce, American and blue cheese and ranch dressing is optional.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Po-boy fillings include everything from fried seafood to corned beef. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef slow cooked in its own jus. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner

Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Oyster House — 1327 St. Charles Ave., (504) 267-0169; www. mredsrestaurants.com — The menu includes raw oysters, seafood, steaks, fried chicken, crawfish etouffee and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ The Stuffed Crab — 3431 Houma Blvd., Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5444 — Crab au gratin features crabmeat in cream sauce topped with cheddar cheese and is served with garlic bread and soup or salad. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood. Reservations recommended.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with masa-fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Reservations recommended. Lunch Friday, dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — The tapas menu includes barbacoas featuring jumbo Gulf shrimp in chorizo cream over toasted bread medallions. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

A&E Paul Simon, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Bill Evans, Earl King, Professor Longhair and Louis Moreau Gottschalk. There also are a few Toussaint compositions: the Professor Longhair-inspired “Delores’ Boyfriend” and a new version of “Southern Nights.”

Guests Rhiannon Giddens and Van Dyke Parks join Toussaint, as do session players including saxophonist Charles Lloyd and Henry’s regular rhythm section, drummer Jay Bellerose and bassist David Piltch.

American Tunes almost didn’t happen. After Toussaint and Henry recorded solo piano pieces in New Orleans in 2013, sessions didn’t resume until October 2015. It was completed during four intense days in Los Angeles. Toussaint died a few weeks later, on Nov. 10, following a concert in Madrid.

Two weeks before the 2015 sessions, Toussaint had asked Henry to postpone them.

“He’d done that a few times over the years,” Henry says.

“I said, ‘No, Allen. I can’t postpone this again. People have changed their schedules to accommodate us. If we’re ever going to do this, now’s the time. But if what you’re really telling me is you don’t want to do this, just say so. I love you till the end of time. I’m so proud of the work we’ve done together to date.’ Allen came back immediately and said, ‘You’re right. I want to honor the schedule.’

“When Allen left the studio on the last day of recording, he was buoyant,” Henry says. “He was so proud of the work. He made sure that I understood that. He said, ‘I’m elated about what’s happened.’”

Henry learned of Toussaint’s death via a pair of early morning text messages. One from Toussaint’s daughter, Alison Toussaint-LeBeaux, the other from the president of Nonesuch Records, David Bither.

“I couldn’t take it in,” Henry says. “I’ve had many moments since when it just doesn’t compute that he’s not among us. On the other hand, he was such a unique and mystical character. I always regarded him as being partially of this Earth. He was always dwelling in the next.”

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TUESDAY 7 30/90 — Bayou Saints, 5; Mem Shannon, 9 Bamboula’s — Dave Hammer & the Cans, 2; Dana & the Boneshakers, 5:30 Banks Street Bar — Clint Boyd, Scott Sanders, The Mighty Orq, 8; Casey Saba, 10 Blue Nile — The Gong Show Musicians Clinic Fundraiser, 8 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Open Ears Music Series feat. Naked Orchestra, 10:30 Cafe Istanbul — We Are the Purple People Prince Tribute feat. DJ E.F. Cuttin, Profess, Casme, Michael Welch, 10 Cafe Negril — The Four Sides, 6; Marc Stone Band, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; My Next Blackout, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Charlie Dennard & Friends, 6; Carey Hudson & the Piney Woods Players, 8 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6; Boyish Charm, Clarke & the Himselfs, 9:30 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 Jazz National Historical Park — Richard Scott, noon The Maison — Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Old Opera House — Creole Storm, 7:45 Siberia — Caddywhompus, Boyfrndz, Residual Kid, The Melters, 9 Snug Harbor — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

WEDNESDAY 8 21st Amendment — Royal Street Winding Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 8 30/90 — Justin Donovan, 5; Mutiny Squad, 9 Art Klub — Jasper den Hartight with Known Mass dance performance, 8:30 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat.

Giselle Anguizola, 2; Mem Shannon, 10 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11 Cafe Negril — Wil Funk, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Kenny Claiborne, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Dave Hickey & Jacob Tanner, 6; Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 8 Circle Bar — Sick Thoughts, Urochromes, Shitboy & Gary Suicide Pact, Life Stinks, Wet Ones, Lenguas Largas/Lenguas Susurrantes, 7 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Kenny Triche, 8

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — George French Trio, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Cactus Thief, 9 House of Blues — Buckethead, 8; Jet Lounge, 11 Jazz Cafe — The Key Sound, 7:30 The Jefferson Orleans North — Jerry Embree & the Heartbeats, 6 Kerry Irish Pub — Paintbox with Dave James & Tim Robertson, 9 The Maison — Albanie & Her Fellas, 4; Jazz Vipers, 6:30; Dave Abbott Band, 9:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Khris Royal feat. Christin Bradford & Cherry Brown, 9 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Cole Williams, 8 Rivershack Tavern — Dave Ferrato, 7 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Boogie Men, 8 Siberia — Space Cadaver, Upheaval, Street Feet, Los Ninos Molestos, 9 Spotted Cat — Chris Christy’s Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 Teddy’s Hole in the Wall — N’awlins Johnnys, 8

THURSDAY 9 21st Amendment — G & Her Swinging Three, 5:30; Caesar Brothers, 9 30/90 — Andy J. Forest, 5; Smoke N Bones, 9 Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Banks Street Bar — Ted Hefko & the Thousandaires, 10:30 Bar Redux — Spider Murphy, Gabriele Trabucco & Connor Stewart, 9 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7 Buffa’s Lounge — Alexandra Scott & Josh Paxton, 5; Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Checkpoint Charlie — Miss Martha & Her Good Time Game, 7; Vigil & the Thieves, Bad Moon Lander, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil Degruy & Emily Robertson, 6; Woodenhead feat. Mark Mullins & Helen Gillet, 8:30 Circle Bar — Jeremy Joyce, 6; Jonathan Freilich, 9:30 The Civic Theatre — Travis Tritt, 8 d.b.a. — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 7; Soul Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Peter Harris Quartet, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — Hello Nomad, The Head, The Quintessential Octopus, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Foot & Friends, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels, 11 The Maison — The Good For Nothin’ Band, 4; Roamin’ Jasmine, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 PAGE 33

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Old Point Bar — Darling Palomino, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Fast Times ’80s and ’90s Night, 10 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Muevelo, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tim Laughlin with Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Republic New Orleans — Yung Lean, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Chubby Carrier, 8:30 Siberia — International Noise Conference feat. Laundry Room Squelchers, Preaux Breaux Geauxld, Cloaca, Three Brained Robot, Doce, Sea Battle, White Girl Wasted, 8 Snug Harbor — O’Conner Band feat. Mark O’Conner, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Stacks on Magazine — Duo Gadjo, 7 Tipitina’s — Chris Robinson Brotherhood, 9 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet, 10

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21st Amendment — The Rhythm Regulators, 2:30; Jim Cole & the Boneyard Syncopators, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 9:30 30/90 — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 2; Kettle Black, 5; Midas, 8; Keng, 11 Bacchanal — Raphael Bas, 4:30; The Organettes, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1 Banks Street Bar — Somerton Suitcase’s Pajama Party, Doombalaya, 9 Bar Redux — DJ Mange, 9 Batch — Yisrael, 5 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 8 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7; Gov’t Majik, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Kumasi Afrobeat Dance Band, 10 Buffa’s Lounge — Hannah KB Band, 5; Margie Perez & Her Funky Boy Band, 8; Rebecca Leigh, 11 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Checkpoint Charlie — Domenic, 4; 30x90 Blues Women, 7; The Budz, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Paul Sanchez, 8; Raw Oyster Cult, 10 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 9:30 d.b.a. — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Kathryn Rose, 7; Holly Rock, 9; DJ Fireworks, 1 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Panorama Jazz Band, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Loose Marbles, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — The Ugly, 10 Kerry Irish Pub — Mark Appleford, 5; Rubin/Wilson Folk-Blues Explosion, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Tom Worrell, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Nayo Jones Experience, 8

The Maison — Eight Dice Cloth, 1; Broadmoor Jazz Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 7; Los Po-Boy-Citos, Resident Alien, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Dave Jordan & NIA, 11 Mudlark Theatre — Painted Honey, Janke & Nellie Kane, 8 Oak — Jenn Howard Glass, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Dreux Antoine, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Feufollet feat.

Aurora Nealand, The Deslondes, Alligator Chomp Chomp, 10 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Sturmlandia, 8:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Kevin Louis with Palm Court Jazz Band & James Singleton, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band with Wendell Brunious, 6; The PresHall Brass with Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 RF’s — John Marcey & Steve Mignano, 6; Mario Abney Quartet, 9 Rivershack Gretna — Jim Cole & the Boneyard Navigators, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — No Idea, 9:30 The Roosevelt Hotel Bar — Moon Germs, 7 Saturn Bar — Drone Baby album release, Sharks’ Teeth, IZE, 9 Siberia — The Obsessed, Karma to Burn, Sierra, Eat the Witch, 8 Snug Harbor — Ellis Marsalis Quintet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Three Muses — Matt Johnson, 5:30; Glen David Andrews, 9 Tipitina’s — Good Enough for Good Times, Stoop Kids, 10 Twist of Lime — NOLA Rock & Roll Festival feat. Cerebral Drama, The Unnaturals, 8 Ugly Dog Saloon — The Subliminators, 7 Vaso — JoJo and Mo Blues, 11 a.m.; Bobby Love & Friends, 3

SATURDAY 11 21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30; Juju Child, 6; The Ibervillianaires, 9:30 30/90 — Organica, 2; Sal Gelesco, 5; Marc Stone, 8; Soul Company, 11 Bacchanal — Red Organ Trio, 4; Will Thompson Quartet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — G & Her Swinging Three, 1; Christopher Johnson Jazz, 5:30 Banks Street Bar — Irene Sage, Mike Darby Band, 10 Bar Redux — DJ Pumpkinhead, 9 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 8 Bei Tempi — Conga Queen, 10 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; New Breed Brass Band, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Oneville feat.

Omari Neville, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

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Steve Gunn and the Outliners

WHETHER YOU PREFER YOUR GUITAR IN LONG-FORM SAGAS OR FOUR-MINUTE SHORT STORIES, STEVE GUNN HAS AN OFFERING FOR YOU. The Brooklyn-based instrumentalist-turned-bandleader spent • 9 p.m. Monday years tangling strings, a yo-yo magician • Gasa Gasa flicking out ear-bending tricks via timelapse ragas that roll in and burn off like fog.

• 4920 Freret St. His transition took place on Time Off and • (504) 304-7110 Way Out Weather, the fraternal 2013-14 • www.gasagasa.com LPs on which Gunn found in his droning mantras — literally and otherwise — an inner voice. Hearing it emerge on the former PHOTO BY CONSTANCE MENSH album, completely organically, is akin to witnessing a birth. On Weather, it mastered balance and mobility; with this week’s Eyes on the Lines, his first for the Matador imprint, it hits the road, taking in the sights and sounds of touring life and turning them into humming rock hops from radio station to station. There’s a steady progression at play: Time Off has six tracks, half of them seven minutes or longer. On Weather, it’s eight tracks, only two exceeding six minutes. Lines is both a contraction and an expansion, its nine songs topping out on opener “Ancient Jules” (six minutes on the dot) but possessing as much forward momentum as his early albums swam in luxuriating stasis. The hitchhiking vagabond is still in there — he just hijacked a big rig. Promised Land Sound opens. Tickets $10.

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Steve Gunn frees his inner vagabond with Eyes on the Lines.

Buffa’s Lounge — Gentilly Lace, 5; Water Seed Allstars, 8; Offensive Jazz Quartet, 11 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Casa Borrega — Pepe Coloma Trio, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — ASD, 4; Kenny Triche, 7; The Ubaka Brothers, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Erica Falls, 9 Circle Bar — Megan Riley, Chris Polacheck, 6; Bellringer, Alien Knife Fight, DiNOLA, 10 The Civic Theatre — St. Lucia, Kind, 10 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Cats-n-Heat, 4; Tuba Skinny, 7; Pine Leaf Boys, 11 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Mudbone, 9; The 2 Pistols Jam Session, 2 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Amanda Ducorbier Trio, 9 Gasa Gasa — Will Vance & the Kinfolk, 10

Golden Lantern — Esplanade Ave. Band, 7:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Uniquity feat. Elliot Luv & Love Train, Alabaster Stag & Kayla Jasmine, Dawnie Marie, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Ashlin Parker & Trumpet Mafia, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Ruby Ross, 5; Frank Saucier & Friends, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Shamarr Allen & the Underdogs, 7:15 Louisiana Music Factory — Spyboy Shotgun Slim, Young Pinstripe Brass Band, 2 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Leah Rucker, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Miss Mojo, Organized Crime, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Tab Benoit Police Tribute, 11 Marigny Brasserie — The Key Sound, 3 Oak — Billy Iuso, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the

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30/90 — Revival, 2; Ted Hefko, 5; Muevelo, 9 Ace Hotel (Three Keys) — Bon Bon Vivant, noon Bacchanal — The Tradsters, 4; The Roamin’ Jasmine, 7:30 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds Jazz, 1; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Banks Street Bar — Brent Richardson, noon; The Kyle Smith Band, 4; Wild Animals, 8 Bar Redux — Singer-Songwriter Spotlight feat. T’Lark, Ma & God, Spider Murphy, 8 BB King’s — D. Saunders & Friends, 11 a.m.

Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7:30; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Snake & the Charmers, 6 Bombay Club — David Boeddinghaus, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Some Like It Hot, 10:30 a.m.; Jazz Youth Showcase, 4; Gerald French Trio, 7

Southport Hall — Anvil, 8 Spotted Cat — Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Superior Seafood — Superior Jazz Trio feat. John Rankin, Harry Hardin, Tim Paco, 11:30 a.m.

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Teddy’s Hole in the Wall — Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Joe Krown, 8

MONDAY 13 21st Amendment — Dave Hennessy, 7 30/90 — Perdido Jazz Band, 5; New Orleans Super Jam, 9 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Mark Rubin & Chip Wilson, 2; NOLA Swingin’ Gypsies, 5:30; Smoky’s Blues Monday Jam, 9 Banks Street Bar — Lauren Sturm’s Piano Night, 7; South Jones, 10 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7 Blue Nile — Brass-A-Holics, 10 Bombay Club — Josh Paxton, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Jenna Guidry, 5; Antoine Deal, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; Whitney Alouisious & Mutiny Squad, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Mike True, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Albanie Falletta, 6; Alexis & the Samurai, 8 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 d.b.a. — Slim Kings, 7; Watson’s Theory feat. June Yamagishi, Chris Spies, Caren Green & Jermal Watson, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Gasa Gasa — Steve Gunn & the Outliners, Promised Land Sound, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; Instant Opus Improvised Series, 10 Irish House — Traditional Irish music session, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Mark Appleford, 8 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — James Andrews & the Crescent City All-Stars, Bobby Love, 8 RF’s — David Bach, 4; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7 Sidney’s Saloon — King James & the Special Men, 10 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10

Three Muses — Andrew Bohren, 5; Russell Welch, 7

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — The organist’s “Organ & Labyrinth” performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock by candlelight. Free. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Clear Lake Band & Choir. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — Mike Larson and Marisa Bergh direct the Wisconsin band and choral group. Free.

5 p.m. Sunday.

The Rocky Mountain Children’s Choir. St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1545 State St., (504) 897-0101; www.scapc.org — The teenage choir sings pop, gospel and jazz favorites. Free.

3 p.m. Sunday.

CALL FOR MUSIC Crescent City Sound Chorus. Singers of all levels are welcome to join the women’s chorus for a variety of vocal exercises.

Reading music is not required. Contact Corinna at (601) 550-0983 or email corinna@ccschorus.org with questions.

Kinderchor. Deutsches Haus, 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, (504) 522-8014 — The New Orleans German-American Children’s Chorus meets Saturday afternoons from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Membership is open to all ages and no prior experience in German or singing is necessary.

Visit www.neworleanskinderchor.blogspot.com for details.

New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra. The orchestra seeks musicians at intermediate level or higher. Visit www.novorchestra. com for details.

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Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6 Champions Square — Weezer, Panic! at the Disco, 5:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Sweet Olive Duo, 6; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Country Night with DJ Pasta, 9:30 Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m. d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Solar Strut, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Alexandra Bosworth, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 House of Blues (The Parish) — Los Rabanes, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Jazz Cafe — The Key Sound, 7:30 The Jefferson Orleans North — The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 6:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Cecile Savage Duo, 10 a.m.

The Maison — Slick Skillet Serenaders, 1; Loose Marbles, 4; Too Darn Hot, 7; Crooked Vines, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown Trio, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Romy Vargas & the Mercy Buckets, 7; Isla Nola, 9:30 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — South Jones, 9 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Clive Wilson, 6; The Preservation All-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 RF’s — Will Kennedy, 4; Tony Seville & the Cadillacs, 7 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 2 Saturn Bar — Bethlehem Steel, Stringer, 10 Siberia — The Asylum Chorus, 6; Wax Idols, King Woman, Druids, 9 Snug Harbor — New Orleans Loving Fest Closing Party, 8

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Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — The Liberators, 9:30 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Kristina Morales & Inner Organ Trio, 8:30 The Orpheum Theater — Kirk Franklin, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell with Palm Court Jazz Band & Lester Caliste, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation AllStars feat. Will Smith, 8, 9 & 10 RF’s — Lucas Davenport, 6; Teneia, 9 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 1 Rivershack Gretna — Imaginary Frenz, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Louisiana Spice, 9:30 The Roosevelt Hotel Bar — Moon Germs, 7 Saturn Bar — Pavel Chekov, Criminal Slang, Fat Stupid Ugly People, 9 Siberia — Nick Jaina, Stephanie Niles, 6; The Dirty Streets, Slow Season, Sunrise:Sunset, 9 Snug Harbor — Germaine Dazzle & Larry Sieberth Trio, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — The Producers, 7 Spotted Cat — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Debbie Davis, 6; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Tipitina’s — John “Papa” Gros Band, 10 Twist of Lime — NOLA Rock & Roll Festival feat. Cerebral Drama, The Unnaturals, 3 Vaso — JoJo and Mo Blues, 11 a.m.

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND 91%: A Film About Guns in America — The documentary discusses gun control issues. Broad The Conjuring 2 (R) — Haints with plummy accents and dental woes turn up in a London townhouse. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal The Demons — A Montreal boy is troubled by his growing awareness of the world. Zeitgeist The Lobster (R) — In the surrealist film, single people have 45 days to find a partner or risk being turned into an animal.

Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Canal Place Now You See Me 2 (PG-13) — A Harry Potter sequel? Nope, just poor Daniel Radcliffe getting typecast as a magician.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal Warcraft (PG-13) — Finally, a movie you and your RPG-playing boyfriend can agree on. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Chalmette

NOW SHOWING Alice Through the Looking Glass (PG) — Off with the head of whoever ordered this stilted return to Wonderland.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place, Prytania The Angry Birds Movie (PG) — The video game origin story you never knew you wanted. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Captain America: Civil War (PG-13) — Members of Hollywood’s A-list (Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johannson, Elizabeth Olsen) reunite for another round of capes and spandex.

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The Darkness (PG-13) — Road-tripgame hero Kevin Bacon is plagued by a poltergeist when he visits the Grand Canyon. Elmwood Hurricane on the Bayou — Director Greg MacGillivray explores Hurricane Katrina and Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands.

Entergy Giant Screen The Jungle Book (PG) — A CGI-intense revival of the children’s story features a wild kingdom voiced by Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley and Scarlett Johansson.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The LEGO Movie (PG) — The gripping adventures of your favorite childhood merchandise. Regal Love & Friendship (PG) — Lady Susan hunts for a man at an English manor in this Austen-inspired comedy of manners.

Elmwood, Canal Place Max (PG) — When a Marine is killed in Afghanistan, his military service dog befriends his family. Regal Me Before You (PG-13) — High tea meets high treacle when an Englishwoman becomes the caretaker for a handsome paralyzed banker. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Meddler (PG-13) — In this terrifying portrayal, Susan Sarandon is a chatty mom who calls 10 times a day. Elmwood Money Monster (R) — Jodie Foster directs the hostage-scenario thriller, in which a TV personality (George Clooney) faces an unhinged viewer. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (R) — Lifesize Ken doll Zac Efron appears in this sequel to the Seth Rogen comedy about bad neighbors. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Nice Guys (R) — Come for the slapstick detective comedy. Stay for Ryan Gosling in a bad cop mustache.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (R) — The male pop star mockumentary bears no resemblance to any persons living or dead, especially Justin Bieber.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Secret Ocean 3D — Filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau explores the ocean’s food chain from phytoplankton to the largest whales. Entergy Giant Screen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (PG-13) — The sewer-dwelling martial arts experts lose their battle against evil studio executives and their Franchise Reboot Machine. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place, Regal Wild Cats 3D — Big kitties roam the African plains and Victoria Falls. Entergy Giant Screen X-Men: Apocalypse (PG-13) — According to The New York Times, “where traditional movie stardom goes to die.” Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

SPECIAL SCREENINGS 42nd Street — The original “backstage” musical is credited with saving the Warner Brothers studio from bankruptcy. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania Almost Holy (R) — Terrence Malick produced this documentary about a Ukranian rehab counselor in a morally ambiguous environment. 9:15 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Zeitgeist An American Tail (G) — There are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday-Monday.

Chalmette A Cat in the Brain — In this early-meta Italian thriller, a serial killer stalks a horror movie director. 9:15 p.m. Tuesday-Monday. Chalmette The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 (R) — Like malevolent spirits, ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine just keep coming back.

6 p.m. Thursday. Elmwood Deutschland 83 — The miniseries follows an East German soldier sent to spy on West Germany during the cold war.

In German with English subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Deutsches Haus (1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (PG-13) — John Hughes’ love letter to Chicago stars

Matthew Broderick as the irrepressible Ferris. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Second Line Brewing (433 N. Bernadotte St.) Ghostbusters (PG) — There is no sequel.

Only Zuul. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday and Sunday. Clearview, Regal, West Bank, Slidell, Elmwood Inside Out (PG) — The animated film about a preteen girl’s turbulent emotions is screened outdoors. 6 p.m. Friday.

Audubon Zoo The Maltese Falcon — The textbook noir has Bogey, Peter Lorre and a mysterious woman who may be up to no good.

10 a.m. Sunday. Prytania One Night for One Drop — A filmed performance by Cirque du Soleil’s acrobatic superhumans raises awareness of global water shortages. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Elmwood The Other Side — Drug dealer Mark and his girlfriend encounter poverty, racial tension and aggression in an Italian documentary shot in Louisiana. 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Zeitgeist Presenting Princess Shaw — The documentary follows Samantha Montgomery: New Orleans resident, nursing home worker and closet YouTube pop star. 3:20 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 5:20 p.m., 9:20 p.m. and 7:50 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 1:20 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Broad Psycho (R) — The O.G. slasher movie is screened for swimmers at the hotel’s pool. 6:30 p.m. Thursday. W New Orleans French Quarter (316 Chartres St.) Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG) — A younger, spryer Harrison Ford fends off Nazis in pursuit of an artifact. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Kenner, Slidell Sleeping Giant — On the shores of Lake Superior, three Canadian teens start to grapple with adult problems. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday and Thursday, 9 p.m. Wednesday. Zeitgeist Weiner (R) — The aptly-named New York politician is profiled. 3:10 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:20 p.m. and 9:35 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m. Thursday. Broad PAGE 38

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JUST ABOUT EVERY DOCUMENTARY MADE TO DELIVER A SOCIOPOLITICAL MESSAGE WINDS UP PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED. From abortion to economic inequality to gun control, hot-button topics • 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, make for provocative films, but mostly attract audiences predisposed to agreeing 5 p.m. Sunday with a particular filmmaker’s underlying • The Broad Theater point of view.

• 636 N. Broad St. New Orleans-based writer-director John Richie circumvents this problem by focusing (504) 218-1008; on a single, crucial facet of the debate on www.thebroadtheater.com gun violence in the U.S. The title of his 91%: A Film About Guns in America refers to the portion of Americans who support universal background checks on people seeking to purchase firearms. Why make a film about an issue on which almost everyone agrees? Overwhelming public support for background checks has not been enough to persuade Congress to close a hole in existing federal laws. The result has been seemingly endless mass shootings and loss of life often perpetrated by people who never would have passed a background check.

Richie’s thoughtful and even-tempered 91% has two tacks that illuminate this issue. The director crisscrossed the country from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut to the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech to allow survivors and those who lost loved ones in mass shootings to tell their own, often heartbreaking stories. Sometimes they’re difficult to hear, but these stories illustrate the true cost of political inaction. The abstract arguments that typically drive gun law debates recede quickly in light of real-world human experience.

The film also spotlights the political and societal forces that conspire to prevent universal background checks. Leading the discussion are award-winning journalist Alec MacGillis and Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. Their primary task is explaining how the American gun lobby — led by the National Rifle Association (NRA) — has managed to defy the will of its most fervent supporters. As the film reveals, 74 percent of NRA members support universal background checks, according to Republican pollster Frank Luntz.

Federal law requires background checks for gun purchasers and bars felons, those convicted of domestic abuse, underage buyers and others from acquiring guns. But those laws only apply to federally licensed firearms dealers, which does not cover internet or gun show sales. The gun lobby — which has received tens of millions of dollars in support from gun manufacturers — currently opposes all legislative efforts to limit lawful access to firearms. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem to live in fear of a poor grade from the NRA. Among those who share personal stories in 91% is Gambit contributing writer Deborah “Big Red” Cotton, one of 19 people shot at a May 2013 Mother’s Day second-line parade in New Orleans. Reflecting on her experiences and ongoing recovery, she mentions that both shooters had “charges against them that should have prevented them from even having guns.” Cotton’s quiet resolve speaks volumes about the need for background-check legislation and supports the film’s refusal to sensationalize tragic events, even when they hit you right where you live.

Unlike documentaries that use fly-on-the-wall techniques to justify the absence of essential, contextualizing information, 91% skillfully builds a complete argument for common-sense reform. Though it’s only 63 minutes long, the film manages a persuasive call to the most basic form of political activism: Know your representatives in Washington, D.C. and support those willing to fight for your interests. Sometimes preaching to the converted is exactly what circumstances require. — KEN KORMAN

91%: A Film About Guns in America

OUR TAKE

Gun violence calls for common-sense reforms.

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HAPPENINGS St. Claude Second Saturdays. St. Claude Arts District, 2820 St. Claude Ave. — Galleries surrounding St. Claude Avenue host receptions. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

OPENING Longue Vue House and Gardens.

7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — “Carnival Conservatory,” indoor garden with Carnival-themed mixed-media pieces by local artists; opening reception 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday.

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans.

433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www. martinlawrence.com — New work by Rene Lalonde; opening reception with the artist 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave., (707) 779-9317; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — Group exhibition including prints by Mexican artist Leticia Tarrago; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “On My Way,” new work by Ernest Joshua Littles, “Di(vision),” new work by Kateri Tolo; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Presences,” mixed-media work by current MFA candidates; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

GALLERIES A Gallery for Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www. agallery.com — “Black & White and Kolor,” new photographs by Elliott Erwitt, through June.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery. com — “Motion and Color,” new work

by Terri Hallman, through Monday. “Oh, the Places You’ll Go,” sketches and work by Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), through June 26.

Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery.com — “Night Flying,” new work by Chris Roberts-Antieau, ongoing.

Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249; www.antonart. com — “Outsider Artist Expose,” folk and outsider art by Mose Tolliver, Howard Finster, Jimmy Lee Sudduth and Chuckie Williams, ongoing.

Aquarium Gallery and Studios. 934 Montegut St., (504) 701-0511; www. theaquariumstudios.wix.com/theaquariumstudios — “Quantifying Coastal Encounters,” new work by Delaina LeBlanc, through June.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — New work by New Orleans artist Annie Lousteau, through June.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Distant Voices in a Foreign Language,” paintings by Vernon Fisher; “Drawing, Reading and Counting,” mixed-media work by James Drake; both through June 18.

Beata Sasik Gallery. 541 Julia St., (985) 288-4170; www.beatasasik.com — “Trees and Leaves,” new paintings and jewelry

by Beata Sasik, through June.

Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery.

4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — Paintings by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, ongoing.

Boyd Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 5812440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Photographs,” Curtis Knapp retrospective, through June.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Transformation,” new work by Nell Tilton, through June.

Catalyst Gallery of Art. 5207 Magazine St., (504) 220-7756; www.catalystgalleryofart.com — Group exhibition of New Orleans-inspired art, ongoing.

Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “Muses & Musicians,” new work by Jason Kruppa, Garrett Haab, Briana Catarino and Lela Brunet, through June 23.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery. com — “Everything in Its Place,” abstract acrylic paintings by Brad Wreyford, through June 25.

The Foundation Gallery. 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola.com — “Books/Catalysts,” book arts survey curated by Jon Coffelt, through June 23.

Frank Relle Photography. 910 Royal St., (504) 388-7601 — “Until the Water,” photographs by Frank Relle, ongoing.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia.com — “Under the Majestic Oaks,” oil paintings of Louisiana farming communities by Kip Hayes, through June.

Gallery B. Fos. 3956 Magazine St., (504) 444-2967; www.beckyfos.com — Paintings by Becky Fos, ongoing.

Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres com — Mixed-media work by Ally Burguieres, ongoing.

Graphite Galleries. 936 Royal St., (504) 565-3739; www.graphitenola.com — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett.com — “Finding Our Place,” landscapes and

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Hammond Regional Arts Center.

217 E. Thomas St., Hammond, (985) 542-7113; www.hammondarts.org — “Stitched Together,” fiber work by Hannah P. Joyce, Laura Gipson and Kathryn Hunter, through June.

Hyph3n-Art Gallery. 1901 Royal St., (504) 264-6863; www.hyph3n.com — Group exhibition by Polina Tereshina, Walker Babington, Charles Hoffacker, Garrett Haab, Jacob Edwards, Wendy Warrelmann and Amy Ieyoub, ongoing.

John Bukaty Studio and Gallery. 841 Carondelet St., (970) 232-6100; www. johnbukaty.com — Paintings and sculpture

by John Bukaty, ongoing.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Art Hysterical,” New Orleans artists curated by Matthew Weldon Showman; “Web of Life,” abstract paintings by Richelle Gribble; “Mother Vision,” dimensional photographs by Rosemary Scott-Fishburn; all through July.

La Madama Bazarre. 910 Royal St., (504) 236-5076; www.lamadamabazarre.com — Mixed-media group exhibition by Jane Talton, Lateefah Wright, Sean Yseult, Darla Teagarden and others, ongoing.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Luminescence,” new work by Deedra Ludwig; “Memento Wild,” new work by Marcy Lally; both through July 30.

M. Francis Gallery. 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 931-1915; www.mfrancisgallery.com — Paintings by Myesha Francis, ongoing.

Martin Welch Art Gallery. 223 Dauphine St., (504) 388-4240; www.martinwelchart. com — Paintings and mixed-media work

by Martin Welch, ongoing.

Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — Exhibition featuring gallery artists, through June 25.

May Gallery and Residency. 750 Carondelet St., (504) 316-3474; www.may-neworleans.org — “Trail Magique,” new work

by Dave Greber, through July.

Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www.michalopoulos.com — Paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing.

Myrtle Banks Building. 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — “Honoring William ‘Willie’ White,” self-taught artist Willie White retrospective, through June 16. “Songs of Home Songs of Change,” sonic map installation by Jebney Lewis, Rick Snow and Christopher Staudinger, through June 26.

New Orleans Tattoo Museum. 1915 1/2 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., (504) 218-5319; www.nolatattoomuseum.com — “Folklore & Flash,” tattoo designs and artifacts, ongoing.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Lumen,” oil paintings by Jerry Cabrera, through July 2.

Overby Gallery. 529 N. Florida St., Covington, (985) 888-1310; www.overbygallery.com — Exhibition by gallery artists James Overby, John Goodwyne, Kathy Partridge, Linda Shelton and Ray Rouyer, ongoing.

Pamela Marquis Studio. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 615-1752; www.pamelamarquisstudio.com — New paintings by Pamela Marquis, ongoing.

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Port. 2120 Port St.; www.2120port.com — “Spectacles,” installations by You Go Girl and Read More, through June 14.

Red Truck Gallery. 938 Royal St., (504) 522-3630; www.redtruckgallery.com — “Arcana,” exhibition of occult-themed work by Liz McGrath, Camilla Rose Garcia, Jessicka Addams, Mab Graves, Souther Salazar, Ryan Heshka, Nicomi Nix Turner and others, through June.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery.

The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — Work by Natalie Nichols, Kalaya Steede, Alison Ford, Erin Gesser and others, ongoing.

RidgeWalker Glass Gallery. 2818 Rampart St., (504) 957-8075 or (504) 450-2839; www.ridgewalkerglass.com — Glass, metal sculpture and paintings by Teri Walker and Chad Ridgeway, ongoing.

River House at Crevasse 22. 8122 Saro Lane, Poydras; www.cano-la.org — The sculpture garden addresses environmental themes, ongoing.

Rodrigue Studio. 721 Royal St., (504) 581-4244; www.georgerodrigue. com — “The Spirit of the Game,” work about sports by George Rodrigue, through Sept. 18.

Rolland Golden Gallery. 325 E. Lockwood St., Covington, (985) 8886588; www.rollandgoldengallery.com — “Finally Winter,” work by Rolland Golden, ongoing.

Rutland Street Gallery. 828 E. Rutland St., Covington, (985) 773-4553; www.rutlandstreetgallery.com — Group exhibition, ongoing.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery.

2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www. scottedwardsgallery.com — “Follow the Music,” photographs of Louisiana by Michael P. Smith; “Tuff Enough,” work by Meg Turner; both through Sunday.

Studio Inferno. Studio Inferno, (504) 945-1878; www.facebook.com/infernonola — “Seven Deadly Sins,” new work by Mitchell Gaudet, through June.

Thomas Mann Gallery I/O. 1812 Magazine St., (504) 581-2113; www.thomasmann. com — “One.Two.,” functional sculpture by Hernan Caro and jewelry and metalsmithing by Co:Operation Garnish, through June.

The Tigermen Den. 3113 Royal St.; www. facebook.com/tigermenden — “Shifting Deltas/Drifting Shelters,” new work about the Mississippi River Delta by Jacque Groves, through June 14.

MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “Becoming Imperceptible,” new work and found images by Adam Pendleton, through June 16.

The Historic New Orleans Collection.

533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “Money, Money, Money!

Currency Holdings from the Historic New Orleans Collection,” and political cartoons dealing with currency, through Oct. 29, and more.

Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org

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she was a small child, but her show at the Newcomb Art Museum leaves the impression that she has been crossing borders and boundaries ever since. Her mind-bending sculptures and multidimensional wall-mounted works are so multilayered that different people may see them very differently as viewers are transported into the less familiar labyrinths of history, science and culture. As Newcomb museum director Monica Ramirez-Montagut notes, Al-Hadid is influenced by historical forms from art and • Through July 24 architecture that she transforms with “drips, • Diana Al-Hadid: Recent sculptextures, patterns and ornaments that recall ture and mixed-media works Arabic calligraphy and Islamic textile patterns. Yet through their ruinous quality, they • Newcomb Art Museum, simultaneously evoke absence.”

Tulane University, Mob Mentality, which at first glance • (504) 865-5328; www.newsuggests a ghostly tapestry of overlapping Gothic arches, is emblematic. Up close, its combartgallery.tulane.edu spidery forms appear like poltergeists, and soon it becomes clear that it’s a massive shadow box where gossamer, doily-thin polymer drips and industrial substances cohere in pale crescendos like waves of ghostly sea foam while evoking something of the multilayered Gothic aura of Anselm Kiefer’s spooky expressionist canvases. Related techniques appear in her monumental sculpture Head in the Clouds, which recalls early Renaissance paintings in which saints loom miraculously above medieval cities, while also recalling the way lightweight materials are used in Carnival float construction. Those surreal, decadent and carnivalesque qualities extend to more substantial works like In Mortal Repose (pictured), a large reclining female form whose melting limbs, rendered in bronze seemingly oozing down a concrete pedestal, initially suggest an oversized chocolate sculpture. Here the perceived boundaries that define not only history but reality melt away in much the way digital technology and quantum physics depict reality as a complex construct — an unsettling perspective that probably causes many people to gravitate toward absolutist platitudes, but which Al-Hadid uses to create works that are intriguing and beautiful but also fun.

— D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

Diana Al-Hadid: Cultural Ruins

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Expressive sculptures probe science, Middle Eastern history and religion.

— “Voyage to Vietnam,” family-friendly video, materials and crafts saluting Vietnamese culture and the Tet festival, through Sept. 11, and more.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Louisiana: A Medley of Cultures,” art and display exploring Louisiana’s Native American, African and European influences, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere.

751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www. lsm.crt.state.la.us — “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy,” Carnival costume designs by Helen Clark Warren and John C. Scheffler, through Dec. 4, and more.

National Food & Beverage Foundation.

1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.natfab.org — “Tujague’s: 160 Years of Tradition,” memorabilia about the restaurant, ongoing.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Bob Dylan: The New Orleans Series,” paintings by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, through July, and more.

Newcomb Art Museum. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — “Women of Newcomb,” recent acquired work by Newcomb College alumnae, through July 24.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “The Surreal Work of a Reclusive Sculptor,” Arthur Kern retrospective, through July 17, and more.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.louisianastatemuseum.org/museums/the-old-us-mint — “Time Takes a Toll,” featuring Fats Domino’s piano, through December.

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THEATER Colossal. University of New Orleans, Robert E. Nims Theatre, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive — Southern Rep’s production about a football player’s catastrophic injury incorporates sports sequences, a drum line and dance. Visit www.southernrep. com for details. Tickets $10-$40. 8 p.m.

Wednesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

The Divine Sister. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www.cuttingedgetheater.com — Charles Busch’s play is a comedic homage to Hollywood films about nuns. Tickets $22$30. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet. The Theatre at St. Claude, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 638-6326; www.thetheatreatstclaude.com — Local playwrights, comedians and burlesque artists produce 60 one-minute plays. Sliding scale tickets $12-$15. 7:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Sondheim on Sondheim. 30 by 90 Theatre, 880 Lafayette St., Mandeville, (844) 843-3090; www.30byninety.com — The musical revue, which is presented alongside videotaped footage of the composer, provides a portrait of his life and work.

Tickets $15-$27. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Wicked. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola. com — The long-touring musical tells the backstory of the witches in The Wizard of Oz. Tickets $46-$178. 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday-Thursday and Sunday, 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY American Mess. Barcadia, 601 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 335-1740; www.barcadianeworleans.com — Katie East hosts local and touring comedians alongside burlesque performances. 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday.

Bad Girls of Burlesque. House of Blues (The Parish), 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.hob.com — Miss Stormy Gayle, Elle Dorado, Chere Noble, GoGo McGregor, Nikki LeVillain and others perform at the transgressive burlesque show.

Tickets start at $21. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Bella Blue’s Dirty Dime Peepshow.

AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge. com — Bella Blue produces a boundary-crossing burlesque show hosted

by Ben Wisdom. Tickets $15. Midnight Saturday.

The Blue Book Cabaret. Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504) 529-2107; www.bourbonpub.com — Bella Blue and a rotating cast including Darling Darla James, Nikki LeVillain, Cherry Brown and Ben Wisdom perform classic and contemporary burlesque and drag.

Visit www.thebellalounge.com for details.

Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Saturday.

Burgundy Burlesque. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 5225400; www.thesainthotelneworleans.com — Trixie Minx leads a weekly burlesque performance featuring live jazz. Free admission; reserved table $10. 9 p.m. Friday.

Burlesque Ballroom. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www.sonesta.com/imjazzplayhouse — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly 1960s-style burlesque show featuring music by Romy Kaye & the Mercy Buckets. Call (504) 553-2331 for details.

Midnight Friday.

Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — A rotating lineup of comedians and burlesque dancers perform. Tickets $5. 9:30 p.m. Monday.

Fleur de Tease. One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks.net — The burlesque company’s season finale show pays tribute to Prince.

Tickets $15, reserved seating $25. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

Burlesque Boozy Brunch: Legs and Eggs. SoBou, 310 Chartres St., (504) 552-4095; www.sobounola.com — A burlesque performance by Bella Blue and friends accompanies brunch service.

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.

Monday’s a Drag. House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge), 229 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com/neworleans — Nicole Lynn Foxx and other drag artists perform. 7 p.m. Monday.

Spotlight New Orleans with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — The guests at the live talk show’s season finale are visual artist Dawn DeDeaux, comic Laura Sanders and Irma Thomas.

Admission $10. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

That’s Hot: A Sexy Storytelling Event.

Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The Bluestockings and area storytellers collaborate on improvised burlesque pieces.

6 p.m. Sunday.

Whiskey & Rhinestones. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St., (504) 941-7629; www.gravierstreetsocial.com — Bella Blue hosts a burlesque show. Visit www. thebellalounge.com for details. Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Thursday.

Yat’s Entertainment!. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www. rivertowntheaters.com — Ricky Graham, Sean Patterson and Becky Allen star in a musical cabaret that pays tribute to all things Yat. Tickets $26. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

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IT IS ONE THING TO READ NEWS REPORTS ABOUT LOUISIANA’S FLAWED JUSTICE SYSTEM and quite another to hear formerly incarcerated women recount personal stories about lengthy sentences and the lasting impacts on their lives. In a program at Catapult marking ArtSpot Productions’ 20th anniversary, Kathy Randels and former members of the PHOTO BY SHANNON BRINKMAN drama club at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women at St. Gabriel kept the audience spellbound with poignant and courageous accounts of lives changed by incarceration.

On a bare stage, in the glow of a single spotlight, each member of The Graduates, a trio of drama club veterans, stepped forward, softly singing, “What about me? Am I forgotten?” Their performances were rich and powerful in the way only first-person testimonials can be.

Teace Dafillo recalled the sisterhood she felt toward fellow inmates — support she found lacking outside prison. She still is learning not to avoid eye contact, because staring anyone in the eye in prison could invite trouble.

A tall, elegant woman, Rhonda Oliver received a 20-year sentence under Louisiana’s Habitual Offender Law for shoplifting goods valued at $179. If lawmakers believe locking up nonviolent, petty offenders for long periods of time rehabilitates them, “I am living proof they are wrong,” she said. In prison, Oliver studied the law, discovering that her sentence was unconstitutional. After serving 14 years, she was freed by a federal court.

The show’s climax occurred with Fox Rich. Appearing in a diaphanous, white dress, pearls and wide-brimmed hat, she was demure, yet simmering with rage. Sixteen years ago, she and her husband made the worst decision of their lives, stealing from a bank, she said. After two years in prison, she worked at a car dealership, raising six sons while her husband serves a 60-year sentence.

“We are trapped in the prison industrial complex,” she said.

The couple acknowledged guilt, took responsibility for their actions, suffered humiliation and made restitution, she said.

“We thought money was what we needed for our family, but we already had what we needed,” Rich said.

Rich was pregnant with twins when shackled and sentenced. Her boys, Freedom and Justice, enter college this fall.

The Graduates participated in drama workshops led by ArtSpot founder Kathy Randels and Ausettua Amor Amenkum at the women’s prison. Performances there are generally closed to the public.

The May 27 performance opened with Randels’ solo piece Rage Within/Without, developed in part with the Illinois Clemency Project in 1994. Randels incorporated interviews with women who murdered abusive partners.

The final act featured performance artist Lisa Biggs dancing a hypnotic, slow-motion Electric Slide while calculating the explosive growth of women in prison. The number of women incarcerated in the U.S. increased more than 600 percent since 1980. Women receive longer sentences than men, mostly for nonviolent crimes.

Drama helps some of these women find a voice.

“Art helps you tell your story and share it to realize you are not alone,” Biggs said.

— MARY RICKARD

Rage Within/ Without, The Graduates and Lisa Biggs

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Moving personal stories about the impact of incarceration.

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DANCE Dance Festival. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse. org — Choreographers Will Byram, Angelle Hebert, Shannon Stewart and Maritza Mercado-Narcissi present new pieces. Tickets $20, seniors $10. 8 p.m.

Friday-Sunday.

COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www. facebook.com/twelve.mile.limit — Julie Mitchell and Laura Sanders host an openmic comedy show. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday.

Brown Improv. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — The improv comedy troupe takes audience suggestions for its performance. 7 p.m. Saturday.

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Massive Fraud presents stand-up comedy. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 949-2009; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show. 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Comedy Gold. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com/neworleans — Leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

ComedySportz. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Cult Following. The Broad Theater, 636 N. Broad St., (504) 218-1008; www.thebroadtheater.com — Stand-up comedians Mary-Devon Dupuy, Anthony Scontrino, Geoffrey Gauchet, Katie East and Jon Reaux present bits, video clips and games based on the movie Clerks. 9 p.m. Monday.

The Duplex. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Two hosts and two improv troupes perform.

8 p.m. Thursday.

The Franchise. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Improv troupes perform. 9 p.m. Friday.

Friday Night Laughs. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 10 p.m., show at 11 p.m. Friday.

Go Ahead. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone and Shawn Dugas host a short lineup of alternative comics. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Greetings, From Queer Mountain. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — LGBTQ comics perform. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Hell Yes Next. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — In this semi-final round, comedians compete for headlining spots at the Hell Yes Fest comedy show-

case. Tickets $10. 10:30 p.m. Friday.

Hot Sauce. Voodoo Mystere Lounge, 718 N. Rampart St., (504) 304-1568 — Vincent Zambon and Leon Blanda host a comedy showcase. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Knockout! The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Two comedy acts compete to win an audience vote.

9:30 p.m. Monday.

Local Uproar. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a comedy showcase with free food and ice cream. 8 p.m. Saturday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3028264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Improv comics take inspiration from a local celebrity’s true story. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

Night Church. Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 947-2379; www.sidneyssaloon.com — Benjamin Hoffman and Paul Oswell host a stand-up show, and there’s free ice cream. 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Duncan Pace hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Rude Jude. Carver Theater, 2101 Orleans Ave., (504) 304-0460; www.carvertheater.org — The comedian’s “Excuse My Rudeness” show has music by DJ Fatt and Mannie Fresh. Blowfish and Shervey Shack open. Tickets start at $20. 9 p.m. Saturday.

The Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — A comedy show and open mic includes periodic rounds of bingo. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Stage Time. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues. com/neworleans — Leon Blanda hosts an open mic. Sign-up 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Think You’re Funny? Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — Brothers Cassidy and Mickey Henehan host an open mic. Sign-up at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The TMI Talk Show. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — Guests and audience members are encouraged to overshare.

8 p.m. Thursday.

CALL FOR THEATER Jefferson Performing Arts Society auditions. Jefferson Performing Arts Society, 1118 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, 885-2000; www.jpas.org — The company holds dance and vocal auditions for its 20162017 musical theater season. Visit www. jpas.org/auditions39 to sign up.

Stage Door Idol auditions. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — Performers ages 17 and up are wanted to appear in the annual Stage Door Idol singing competition.

Contestants should prepare a song that was written or recorded in the 1940s. Call (504) 528-1944 ext. 267 for details.

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TUESDAY 7 Intermediate Grant Writing for Nonprofits. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — The Funding Seed holds an intermediate-level workshop on grant writing for nonprofits. Register at www.thefundingseed.com; student, group and AmeriCorps discounts available. Tickets $40. 9 a.m. to noon.

WEDNESDAY 8 Community Coffee. Joan Mitchell Center, 2275 Bayou Road, (504) 940-2500; www.joanmitchellfoundation.org — Haitian photographer Gason Ayisyin hosts an artist networking event. Pagoda Cafe serves light refreshments. Free admission. 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Harrison Avenue Marketplace. Lakeview Grocery, 801 Harrison Ave., (504) 293-1201; www.lakeviewgrocery.com — Friends of Lakeview and the Lakeview Civic Improvement Association present a marketplace of arts and crafts, food, business and nonprofit vendors. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Jazz Pilates with Stephanie Jordan.

Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.louisianastatemuseum.org/museums/the-old-usmint — Jazz music scores an outdoor Pilates class. Bring a fitness mat. Free admission. 4 p.m.

Nature Walk and Titivation. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature.org — Guests tour natural habitats and learn to prune plants along the trail.

Free admission. 1 p.m.

Personal Safety and Security Lecture.

Jefferson Council on Aging, Thomas C. Laughlin Center, 4518 Jefferson Highway, (504) 734-0817; www. jcoa.net — State trooper Robert Mire discusses personal safety and security measures for older citizens. Visit www. peopleshealth.com/wellness to register.

Free admission. Noon.

Public Problems, Private Solutions. Irish House, 1432 St. Charles Ave., (504) 5956755; www.theirishhouseneworleans.com — America’s Future Foundation presents a panel of citizens working to reform the city’s criminal justice system. Pre-registration includes a drink ticket. Visit www. americasfuture.org/new-orleans for details. Free admission. 6 p.m.

Teacher Recruitment Event. People’s Health New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 3715849; www.phnojm.org — New Beginnings Schools Foundation hosts a teacher recruiting event. Attendees should bring a copy of their resume and prepare for on-site interviews. Visit www.newbeginningsnola.net for details. Free admission.

5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Wednesdays on the Point. Algiers Ferry Landing, 200 Morgan St., Algiers — The summer concert series has musical performances, wine and concessions from local restaurants. Visit www.wednesdaysonthepoint.com for details. Free admission. 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY 9 Dine Out 4 Paws. Citywide — Participating restaurants donate 20 percent of their evening proceeds to the Louisiana SPCA animal rescue organization. Visit www. la-spca.org/dineout for details.

Girls Pint Out. Urban South Brewery, 1645 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 517-4677; www.urbansouthbrewery.com— The womens’ beer aficionado group meets to celebrate the newly opened brewery with a social hour and drink specials. Free admission. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Jazz in the Park. Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St. — A weekly concert series features musical performances, craft vendors and concessions from local restaurants. Free admission. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Shadows of Steam Steampunk Social.

House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge), 229 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www. houseofblues.com/neworleans — At the monthly gathering, attendees discuss steampunk, vampires and horror subcultures. Free admission. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 10 American Spirit Awards. National World War II Museum, U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.nationalww2museum.org — The gala, which celebrates individuals whose work upholds democratic values, has musical performances and food by chef Donald Link. Proceeds benefit the museum’s educational programming. Tickets start at $500. Patron party 6 p.m., gala 7:30 p.m.

B-Fest Teen Book Festival. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial≈Blvd., Metairie, (504) 455-5135; www.barnesandnoble.com — The chain’s inaugural teen book festival features author events, writing workshops, panel discussions, trivia, games, exclusives and giveaways. Visit www.bn.com/bfest for details. 7 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.

Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Tulane professor AnnieLaurie Ericsson gives a talk on alternative modes of photographic production. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Southern Sportsman’s Festival & Expo. John A. Alario Sr. Event Center, 2000 Segnette Blvd., Westwego, (504) 349-5525 — The three-day expo and festival includes products for sportsmen, demonstrations, seminars, family-friendly

SATURDAY 11 610 Stompers Ball Crawl. Grit’s Bar, 530 Lyons St., (504) 899-9211 — The male dance troupe’s “Wet Hot American Stomper” bar crawl benefits childrens’ and literacy charities.

Summer camp attire encouraged. Visit www.610stompers.com for details. Registration $40-$50. Noon.

Art Market. Press Street Gardens, 7 Press St.; www.pressstreetgardens.com — The NOCCA Institute’s nighttime art market in the gardens coincides with 5 Press Gallery’s opening receptions. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Children’s Art Workshop. Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — Artists Maria Fomich and Alison Cook lead a children’s craft workshop in making Father’s Day gifts. Reservations recommended; suggested donation $5. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Douglas Redd Cultural Summit. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www. ashecac.org — The meeting of artists, culture bearers, community organizers and entrepreneurs covers “Taking Action: Working Together for the New Orleans Tri-Centennial and Beyond.” Free admission. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Duck Derby and Festival. Bogue Falaya Park, downtown Covington, (985) 8921811 — The St. Tammany Humane Society holds its fundraising rubber duck race on the Bogue Falaya River with musical performances, food, drinks and kids’ activities. Visit www.duckrace.com/covington for details. Noon to 6 p.m.

Ferris Bueller’s Leisure Day Pub Crawl.

Bayou Beer Garden, 326 N. Jefferson Davis Parkway, (504) 302-9357; www. bayoubeergarden.com — The Organ Grinders and Disco Amigos’ pub crawl celebrates the 30th anniversary of cult classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with drink specials, costume contests and more.

Tickets $20-$30. 2:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

French Market Creole Tomato Festival.

French Market, French Market Place, between Decatur and North Peters streets, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket.org — The fest features musical performances, food booths, tomato-eating contests, cooking demonstrations and a 5K race. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Gillespie Memorial Community Breakfast. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 5212 S. Claiborne Ave., (504) 866-9010; www.firstuuno.org — Speaker Tim Lyman discusses his research on racial bias and the death penalty at a breakfast and social justice networking event. Free admission. 10 a.m.

Hope for 2Morrow. People’s Health New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 371-5849; www.phnojm.org — A masked charity gala features

cuisine from local restaurants and musical performances. Tickets $80-$150. 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Junefest Arts & Crafts Show. Coquille Park & Recreation Center, 13505 Highway 1085, Covington — The art market features 150 vendors selling handmade arts and crafts. Visit www.steinhauerproductions.com for details. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Magnolia Ball. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org— The museum’s spring gala honors the Top Mob graffiti collective with a dance party, DJs, food trucks, specialty cocktails and a silent auction. Tickets start at $150. 9 p.m. to midnight.

NOLA Time Fest. Hilton New Orleans Airport, 901 Airline Drive, Kenner, (504) 469-5000; www.hilton.com/neworleans — Krewe du Who and the Consortium of Genius present an all-ages sci-fi convention featuring costumes, merchants, panels, gaming, prizes and musical performances. Visit www.nolatimefest.com for details. Advance tickets $25, at the door $30. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Parade of Homes. Citywide — The Home Builders Association of Greater New Orleans holds its annual tour of new homes being built throughout the metro area. A full list of homes can be found at www.hbagno.org. Free admission. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Urban Gardening. Parkway Partners Greenhouse, 1137 Baronne St., (504) 6202228; www.parkwaypartnersnola.org — Urban gardener Caroline O’Brien discusses organic gardening, soil amendments, weed and pest control and crop layout to produce fresh organic vegetables. Free admission. 10 a.m.

World Naked Bike Ride. Mickey Markey Park, 700 Piety St. — The clothing-optional bike ride draws attention to cycling safety issues. Free admission. 4 p.m.

Yoga on the Bayou. Bayou St. John at Dumaine Street — Yoga Lagniappe hosts a rain-or-shine outdoor yoga class for all ability levels. Email info@yogalagniappe.com for details. Suggested donation $10. 8:30 a.m.

SUNDAY 12 Family Equality Day. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — Local LGBT people and their families can enjoy activities including a bounce house and crafts, sno-balls, insect education panels and community resources. Guests are encouraged to bring a picnic and blanket.

Free with online RSVP. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Jazzi Brunch Buffet. Algiers Auditorium, 2485 Guadalcanal St., Algiers, (504) 2175003 — A brunch buffet with bottomless mimosas benefits the Louisiana SPCA. Visit www.bit.ly/jazzibrunch for details.

Tickets $30; use promo code LASPCA for 20 percent off. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act Discussion.

Audubon Zoo, Dominion Auditorium, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 861-2537; www. audubonnatureinstitute.org — Matt Weigel discusses the Louisiana Scenic Rivers Act. Call (504) 307-0187 for details. Free admission. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Pet First Aid & CPR Course. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 3685191; www.la-spca.org — This hands-on training course teaches the basics of animal handling, restraint, pet first aid and

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activities, regional music and food. Visit www.southernsportsmansfestival.com for details. Tickets $10, kids under 16 $5, kids ages 6-under free. 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Wild Nights Insect Adventure. Audubon Wilderness Park, 14001 River Road, (504) 581-4629 — Audubon entomologists share details about bugs in the wild, followed by a nature walk and sandwich dinner. Visit www.audubonnatureinstitute. org for details. Tickets $125, members $115. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Veggie Growing Basics. Southbound Gardens Nursery, 4221 S. Robertson St.; www.southboundgardens.com — The vegetable-growing class focuses on bed building and soil preparation, watering and plant selection. Suggested donation $10. 1 p.m.

MONDAY 13 Keep Your Well-being in Dating & Relationships. Broadmoor Arts & Wellness Center, 3900 Gen. Taylor St.; www. broadmoorimprovement.com — A workshop for women covers online dating and general relationship issues. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

WWE Monday Night Raw. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena. com — WWE presents a live wrestling event featuring John Cena, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and others. Tickets $21-$105. 6:30 p.m.

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New Orleans Zephyrs. Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 7345155; www.zephyrsbaseball.com — The New Orleans Zephyrs play the Omaha Storm Chasers. 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday.

WORDS Blood Jet Poetry Series. BJ’s Lounge, 4301 Burgundy St., (504) 945-9256 — Local and visiting poets read, followed by an open mic. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

BSB Open Mic. Banks Street Bar, 4401 Banks St., (504) 486-0258; www. banksstreetbarandgrill.com — Carolyn Hembree guest hosts the poetry open mic. 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Esoterotica. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www. theallwayslounge.com — Local writers read from erotic stories, poetry and other pieces. Visit www.esoterotica.com for details. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Friends of the New Orleans Public Library book sale. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, (504) 529-7323; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The group hosts sales of books, DVDs, books on tape, LPs and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

John Hart. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 8952266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author discusses and signs Redemption Road. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Judge Edward Butler Sr.. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author discusses and signs Galvez/Spain, Our Forgotten Ally in the American Revolutionary War: A Concise Summary Of Spanish Assistance.

6 p.m. Thursday.

Lauren S. Cardon. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author discusses and signs Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Maple Street Book Club. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-

4916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — Local author Ann Glaviano guest facilitates this month’s book club selection There Once Lived a Woman Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In by Russian author Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

6 p.m. Thursday.

Sloane Crosley. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author converses with fellow novelist Nathaniel Rich and signs The Clasp. 6 p.m. Monday.

Stella’s Open Mic. Community Commitment Education Center, 1923 Leonidas St., (504) 931-0549; www.communitycommitment.net — The monthly poetry showcase includes a featured poet and an open mic. 7 p.m. Saturday.

Susan Tucker. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 8952266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author discusses and signs City of Remembering: A History of Genealogy in New Orleans. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED American Cancer Society. The society seeks volunteers for upcoming events and patient service programs. Visit www. cancer.org or call (504) 219-2200.

Arc of Greater New Orleans. The organization for people with intellectual disabilities seeks donations of Mardi Gras beads. Visit www.arcgno.org for details and drop-off locations.

Bayou Rebirth Wetlands Education.

Bayou Rebirth seeks volunteers for wetlands planting projects and other duties.

Visit www.bayourebirth.org.

CASA New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month.

No special skills are required; training and support are provided. Call (504) 5221962 or email info@casaneworleans.org.

The Creativity Collective. The organization seeks artists, entrepreneurs, parents and teens to help with upcoming projects and events, including maintaining a creative resource directory and organizing charity bar crawls. Visit www.creativitycollective.com or call (916) 206-1659.

Crescent City Farmers Market. CCFM and MarketUmbrella.org seek volunteers to field shoppers’ questions, assist seniors, help with children’s activities and more. Call (504) 495-1459 or email latifia@marketumbrella.org.

Dress for Success New Orleans. The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to manage inventory, help clients and share their expertise. Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@ dressforsuccess.org.

Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest one-on-one mentoring program seeks volunteer mentors. Visit www.eachonesaveone.org.

Edgar Degas Foundation. The nonprofit seeks volunteers to contribute to foundation development. Call (504) 821-5009 or email info@degashouse.com.

Edible Schoolyard. Edible Schoolyard seeks community volunteers and interns to assist in kitchen and garden classes and to help in school gardens.

Visit www.esynola.org/get-involved or email amelia@esynola.org.

First Tee of Greater New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteers to serve as mentors and coaches to kids and teens through its golf program. Visit www.thefirstteenola.org.

Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running partners, assistant coaches, committee members and race-day volunteers.

Email info@gotrnola.org or visit www. gotrnola.org.

Golden Opportunity Adult Literacy Program. GOAL seeks volunteers to conduct courses for reading comprehension, GED preparation and English language learning.

Call (504) 373-4496.

Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. The center seeks part-time civil rights investigators with excellent writing skills, reliable transportation and no criminal convictions to help expose housing discrimination in the New Orleans metro area.

Call (504) 717-4257 or email mmorgan@ gnofairhousing.org.

Green Light New Orleans. The group seeks volunteers to help install free energy-efficient lightbulbs in homes. Visit www.greenlightneworleans.org, call (504) 324-2429 or email green@greenlightneworleans.org.

HandsOn New Orleans. The volunteer center for the New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the opportunities available and how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 304-2275, email volunteer@handsonneworleans.org or visit www.handsonneworleans.org.

Hospice Volunteers. Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Carla Fisher at (504) 832-8111.

Jackson Barracks Museum Volunteers.

The museum seeks volunteers to work one day a week for the Louisiana National Guard Museum. Volunteers prepare military aircraft, vehicles and equipment for display. Call David at (504) 837-0175 or email daveharrell@yahoo.com.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. Longue Vue seeks volunteers to assist with giving tours, garden maintenance and education outreach. Email info@longuevue.com or call (504) 293-4720 for information.

Louisiana SPCA. The LA/SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete an orientation to work directly with animals. Visit www.la-spca.org/volunteer.

Lowernine.org. Lowernine.org seeks volunteers to help renovate homes in the Lower 9th Ward. Visit www.lowernine.org or email lauren@lowernine.org.

National World War II Museum. The museum accepts applications for volunteers to greet visitors and familiarize them with its galleries and artifacts. Call (504) 527-6012, ext. 243, or email katherine.alpert@nationalww2museum.org.

New Canal Lighthouse Museum. The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation seeks volunteer docents for its museum and education center. Visit www.saveourlake.org or call (504) 836-2238.

NOLA for Life Mentors. The city initiative’s partner organizations seek adults to mentor boys ages 15 to 18 who are at risk for violence. Visit www.nolaforlife.org/give/mentor.

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NOLA Tree Project. The forestry organization seeks volunteers to adopt trees around the city and trim them. Visit www. nolatreeproject.org.

NOLA Wise. The partnership of Global Green, the City of New Orleans and the Department of Energy helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient. It seeks volunteers, who must attend a 30-minute orientation. Email mrowand@globalgreen.org.

Parkway Partners. The green space and community garden organization seeks volunteers for building, gardening and other projects. Email info@parkwaypartnersnola.org, call (504) 620-2224 or visit www.parkwaypartnersnola.org.

Refugee mentors. Catholic Charities of New Orleans’ Refugee Service Program seeks volunteers, especially those with Arabic, Burmese and Spanish language skills, to help newly arrived refugees learn about everyday life in America.

Senior companions. The New Orleans Council on Aging seeks volunteers to assist seniors with personal and daily tasks so they can live independently. Visit www.nocoa.org or call (504) 821-4121.

SpayMart. The humane society seeks volunteers for fundraising, grant writing, data input, adoptions, animal care and more. Visit www.spaymart. org, email info@spaymart.org or call (504) 454-8200.

St. Thomas Hospitality House. The Catholic charity seeks individuals and groups of volunteers to serve people experiencing homelessness. Contact Daniel Thelen at nolacw@gmail.com or (517) 290-8533.

Start the Adventure in Reading. The STAIR program holds regular twohour training sessions for volunteers, who work one-on-one with public school students to develop reading and language skills. Call (504) 899-0820, email elizabeth@stairnola.org or visit www.stairnola.org.

Teen Life Counts. The Jewish Family Service program seeks volunteers to teach suicide prevention to middle school and high school students. Call (504) 831-8475.

Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries.

The charity seeks volunteers to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans with food and clothing distribution, home improvement and beautification, social media and web design. Call (504) 340-3429 or visit www.veteranshousingoutreach.webs.com.

Water Wise Neighborhood Champions.

The Green Clean Neighborhood Effort seeks volunteers for storm drain cleaning in the Bunny Friend, St. Roch, 7th Ward and Treme neighborhoods. Tools and drinking water provided. Contact Angela at (504) 475-4422.

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Corporate Realty Inc. is seeking to hire a qualified Assistant Property Manager for multiple commercial properties in New Orleans area. Expectations (but not limited to): Excellent communication skills with Owners, Tenants, Staff and Service Providers; Management of various service agreements and operating budget including monitoring of services and purchases to be consistent with operating budget; and Develop and bid service contracts as needed. Minimum three (3) years property management experience REQUIRED, and CPM and/or RPA is desirable.

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Hurwitz Mintz has an immediate opening for a full time cashier with previous retail experience. Candidate must be professional, detail oriented, flexible with good communicative skills. Some nights and weekends are required. Apply in person 1751 Airline Dr, Metairie, LA (504) 378-1000.

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Our bookkeepers can help you with managing your accounts receivable (billings and collections), accounts payable (paying bills), payroll, bank and trust account management and reconciliation, accounting, financial statements.

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SUMMER JOBS

TO PROTECT OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES Pay: $350-$500 per week Work with Grassroots Campaigns on behalf of the ACLU to fight for LGBT rights, protect a woman’s right to choose and stop voter suppression.

Full-Time / Career

Call Frankie at (504) 571-9585

seeks applicants for a psychiatry faculty position.

Responsibilities

Teaching family medicine residents and medical students, providing direct patient care, engaging in scholarly activity.

For information contact:

Dr. Thad Ulzen at tulzen@ua.edu or 205-348-1325 and visit cchs.ua.edu

Career Fair for 20 locations in the French Quarter.

We are looking for motivated, professional individuals who pride themselves on guest service.

Managers, Servers, line cooks, bartenders, bussers, greeters, prep, saute

Bourbon Vieux 501 Bourbon Street June 9th • 10am – 6pm

WE LOVE OUR VOLUNTEERS! We are always looking for additions to our wonderful team! Hospice volunteers are special people who make a difference in the lives of patients and families affected by terminal illness. Interested in a future medical career? Get on our exciting new track!

Many physicians and nurses receive their first taste of the medical field at Canon.

To become a hospice volunteer, call Paige at 504-818-2723 Ext. 3006

LEGAL NOTICES

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 344-248 DIVISION: “N” SUCCESSION OF WILLIAM T. BRINGLE NOTICE Notice is given that the provisional administrator of this succession has filed a petition for authority to pay estate debts, in accordance with a tableau of distribution contained in the petition. The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven days from the date of this publication; any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to homologation.

Clerk of Court Attorney: C. RICHARD GERAGE Address: 3621 Ridgelake Dr., Suite 207 Metairie, Louisiana 70002 Phone: 504.831.7171 Email: crichardgerage@bellsouth.net Gambit: 6/07/16

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 615-279 DIVISION: “P” SUCCESSIONOF ANA MARQUEZ-JULIO NOTICE Notice is given that the executor of this succession has filed a petition for authority to pay estate debts, in accordance with a tableau of distribution contained in the petition.

The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven days from the date of this publication; any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to homologation.

Clerk of Court Attorney: C. RICHARD GERAGE Address: 3621 Ridgelake Dr., Suite 207 Metairie, Louisiana 70002 Phone: 504.831.7171 Email: crichardgerage@bellsouth.net Gambit: 6/07/16

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 757-347 DIVISION “O” SUCCESSION OF ELODIE MARIE LABRUYERE DUFFY NOTICE TO SELL REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE WHEREAS, Michael Duffy, Testamentary Executor of the above estate, has made application to the Court for sale at private sale of the real estate herein described, to-wit: 127 Hollywood Drive, Metairie, Louisiana 70005, Lots 52, 53 BLC, Crestmont Park, 9721080, being lands and grounds measuring fifty (50) by one hundred twenty feet (120), Assessor’s Parcel No. 0810001294 consisting of real immovable property specifically described as follows: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, all rights, ways, servitudes, privileges and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in “Crestmont” on the Metairie Ridge, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in Block “C”, bounded by Ellis Parkway, Hollywood Drive, Rosewood Drive and Crestmont Drive and designated as Lots number fifty-two (52) and fifty-three (53) of Block “C” on a plan of survey made by Alfred F. Theard, Civil Engineer, annexed to an act of deposit passed before Roger Meunier, Notary Public in and for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, dated September 7th,

Purchase price of $365,000.00, to be divided 25% to Michael Duffy in full ownership, 25% to Paul Duffy in full ownership, and 50% to the Succession of Elodie Duffy.

Jessica Santos Deputy Clerk of Court 24th CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern including the heirs and creditors of the decedent and this succession that they are ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have at any time prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publications of such notice, all in accordance with law.

Respectfully submitted: BETSY A. FISCHER, L.L.C.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT: Rod Schouest, Deputy Clerk JON A. GEGENHEIMER Honorable Clerk of Court 24th Judicial District Court Parish of Jefferson Attorney: Carl J. Giffin, Jr. BERNARD, CASSISA, ELLIOTT & DAVIS Address: 3838 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite 3050 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: 504-834-2612 Gambit: 5/17/16 & 6/7/16

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.758-748 DIVISION “K” SUCCESSION OF MYRTLE BOURQUE KILDAY NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN that JOHN T. KILDAY, Executor of the SUCCESSION OF MYRTLE BOURQUE KILDAY, has, pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($120,000.00). The Succession’s interest in and to the following described property: Family Residence being more particularly described on tax notice as follows: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together will all of the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the City of Harahan, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Colonial Park Subdivision, in Square A, bounded by Anthony Street, Jefferson Highway, nor or formerly Plot 15 of Riverfront Farms and Mary Street, (formerly14 Reserved Strip), which said lot of ground is designated as Lot Number 7 and commences at a distance of two hundred eighty two (282’) feet from the corner of Anthony Street and Jefferson Highway and measures thence forty seven (47’) feet front on St. Anthony Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of one hundred two (102’) feet between equal and parallel lines. All in accordance with a survey by Gilbert, Kelly and Couturie, Inc., Errol E. Kelly, Land Surveyor, dated October 4, 1984, a copy of which is annexed hereto and made part hereof for reference.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal Number 224 Anthony Avenue.

Being the same property acquired by Mona Ducote, wife of, and Gary M. Leingang from Sandra Baker, wife of, and Gary P. Carter, by an Act passed before Marvin Opotowsky, Notary Public, dated July 1, 1981, registered in Conveyance Office Book 1007, folio 377, for the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana.

Attorney: Betsy A. Fischer (LBRN 21588) Address: 3636 South I-10 Service Rd. W. Suite 216; Metairie, LA 70001 Telephone: (504) 780-8232 Gambit: 6/07/16 & 6/28/16

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.760-031 DIVISION “E” SUCCESSION OF CURTIS J. CONEY, JR. consolidated with NO.760-462 DIVISION “G” SUCCESSION OF MARGARET GUSTAVSON CONEY NOTICE TO SELL REAL ESTATE - AT PRIVATE SALE WHEREAS, Michael Coney, testamentary executor of the Succession of Curtis J. Coney, Sr. and executor of the Succession of Margaret Gustavson Coney, has made application to the Court for sale at private sale of the real estate herein described, to-wit: 853 Phosphor Ave., Metairie, LA 700052017, ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways privileges, servitudes, appurtenances, prescriptions and advantages thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining or affected, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that position thereof known as BONNABEL PLACE SUBDIVISION, in SQUARE NUMBER 53, bounded by Phosphor Avenue, Pomona Street, the Eastern Boundary Line of the said Subdivision (Old Homestead Subdivision side), and the Veterans’ Memorial Highway (formerly Canal Street side), and which said lot of ground is designated by the LETTER “G”, and commences at a distance of one hundred (100’) feet from the corner of Phosphor Avenue and Pomona Street, and measures thence fifty (50’) feet front on PHOSPHOR AVENUE, the same in width in the rear, by a depth of one hundred eight (108’) feet, between equal and parallel lines; and is composed of portions of original Lots “13-A”, “13-B”, “14-A”, and “14-B”, all according to sketch of survey made by Errol E. Kelly, Surveyor, dated January 22nd, 1966, a blue print copy whereof is attached to and made part of another Act of Sale passed before me, Notary, this date, for reference.

Upon the following terms and conditions, to-wit: Purchase price of $217,000.00, to be divided 50% to the Succession of Curtis J. Coney, Sr. and 50% to the Succession of Margaret Gustavson Coney.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern including the heirs and creditors of the decedents, Curtis J. Coney, Sr. and Margaret Gustavson Coney, and these successions that they are ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have at any time prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publications of such notice, all in accordance with law.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT: Rod Schouest, Deputy Clerk JON A. GEGENHEIMER Honorable Clerk of Court 24th Judicial District Court Parish of Jefferson Attorney: Don M. Richard Kinney, Ellinghausen, Richard & DeShazo Address: 1250 Poydras Street Suite 2450; New Orleans, LA 70113 Telephone: 504-524-0206

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TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.754983 DIVISION “I” SUCCESSION OF BEVERLY BERNADETTE FASULLO NOTICE OF FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Notice is hereby given that the testamentary executor of this succession has filed a petition for authority to pay debts of the succession in accordance with the tableau of distribution contained in the petition. The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of this publication; any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to homologation.

W. Gaudet DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT Michael F. Schott, Jr. #35310 Kevin G. Heigle # 6753 Heigle & Associates Attorneys for Petitioner Address: 131 Airline Dr. Suite 201 Metairie, LA 70001 Telephone: (504) 832-0401 Gambit: 6/07/16

PUBLIC NOTICE COUNCIL CHIEF OF STAFF POSITION

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS IS SEEKING A HIGHLY MOTIVATED AND QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL TO MANAGE AND ADMINISTER THE OPERATIONS AND AFFAIRS OF THE COUNCIL AS COUNCIL CHIEF OF STAFF (COS). THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COS INCLUDE THE MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION OF SERVICES PERFORMED BY ALL COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF DIVISIONS: CLERK OF COUNCIL, FISCAL, RESEARCH, AND UTILITIES. THE COMPLETE COS JOB DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE COUNCIL’S WEBSITE, WWW.NOLACITYCOUNCIL.COM, OR MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE CLERK OF COUNCIL, ROOM 1E09, CITY HALL, 1300 PERDIDO STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE CLERK OF COUNCIL AT (504) 658-1085. APPLICATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED OR RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE JUNE 18, 2016.

PUBLICATION DATES: MAY 24 AND 31 AND JUNE 7 AND 14, 2016 Any heirs, successors, or relatives of William J. Miller, a/k/a William John Miller, Jr., please contact attorney Michael Raspanti at (504) 339-0479.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Barbara Jean Marshall Brown please contact Atty.

D.Davenport at 504-256-5452.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Claudia Yaneth Pineda please contact Atty.

D.Davenport at 504-256-5452.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of James Turner or Willie Proctor or anyone believing to be a lawful heir of Willie Proctor, please contact Attorney Ashley B. Schepens at (504) 301-0708.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Michelle Colleen Welch, please call Atty.

Marion D. Floyd, 504-467-3010.

Anyone knowing the wherebouts of the heirs of Tina Scales, please contact Atty.

E. Appleberry, 405 Gretna Blvd., Ste.104, Gretna, LA 70053; (504) 362-7800.

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TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Upon the following terms and conditions, to-wit:

NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with law, notice is hereby given that JOHN T. KILDAY, Executor, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from the date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.

NOTICES

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON

1923, and deposited in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Jefferson Parish according to which plan said lots of ground adjoin each other and measure as follows: Lots fifty-two (52) and fifty-three (53) each have twenty-five (25) feet front on Hollywood Drive, same width in the rear by a depth of one hundred twenty (120) feet between equal and parallel lines.

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Alison Grice Barrios

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(504) 628-2373 alison@barriosrealestate.com

Alicia Curtis

Michele Beelman

(504) 908-3423 mmbeelman@hotmail.com

Jennifer Dixon

(504) 810-8465 aliciacurtis@kw.com

(504) 236-1066 jenniferdixon@kw.com

Kristie Gordon

Jamie Amdal Hughes

504-940-4939 kristie.gordon@cox.net

Celeste Marshall

Linda Bordenave (504) 862-4106 lindab@kw.com

Polly Eagan

Sarah Martzolf

Tracie Myers

Daina Purpura

Kim Rafferty

Megan Ruse

Shannon Zink

(504) 231-7240 spszink@gmail.com

Jennifer Fowler

Ashley Kostmayer

(504) 512-2872 tracie.realtor@gmail.com

(504) 430-2178 realestate@mwabnig.com

Anne Eichin

Lana Hunt

(225) 933-6459 lanahunt@kw.com

(504) 261-5654 martzolf.sarah@gmail.com

Margarete Wabnig

(504) 382-3724 Alicialagarde@kw.com

(504) 352-8444 anneceichin@kw.com

(504) 913-0597 jamienolarealtor@gmail.com

(504) 616-8451 realtorkimr@gmail.com

Alicia Lagarde Craig

(504) 782-1937 renee.realtor225@gmail.com

(504) 452-3571 pollyeagan@aol.com

(504) 220-8558 celeste.marshall@gmail.com

(504) 220-3887 dpurpura@kw.com

Renee Broussard

(504) 507-9585 meganruse@kw.com

Lupe Creech

504-460-3516 lupecreech@kw.com

Mirell Gallo

(504) 432-7788 jfowler@kw.com

(504) 812-5737 mirell.gallo@gmail.com

Bonnie LaNasa

Ansley Marshall

(504) 616-5895 ashley@kostmayer.com

(504) 508-9308 bonnie.lanasa@gmail.com

(504) 430-3887 ansleymarshall@gmail.com

Margaret Oesterle

Donna Pisani

Lesley Poche

(504) 975-1833 margaret@kw.com

Talia Sciortino

(504) 442-2020 taliasciortino@kw.com

(504) 491-2783 pisanidonna@gmail.com

(504) 259-2561 lespax963@hotmail.com

Liz Tardo

M. Theresa Turla

(504) 723-4011 Liz@liztardo.com

(504) 862-0100 Each Office Independently Owned and Operated

(504) 858-6366 th.turla@gmail.com

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

NOTICE:

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

New granite in kit & bath. 12 x 24ft lr, King Master w/wall of closets. Furn Kit. Laundry on premises. Offst pkg. NO PETS. O/A, $724-$848/mo. 504-236-5776.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

Spacious 1700 Sqft. 2BR, 2.5 BA. Walk-in closets, balcony, washer/dryer. Secured Parking. Internet, health club, pool! $2,000 monthly. Call 781-608-6115.

BROADMOOR 3 BR/1.5 BA Absolutely adorable, super fresh + clean cottage w excellent floorplan; central air + heat; oak strip hardwood flooring (heart pine in kitchen) throughtout; covered ceilings vintage bathroom in excellent condition; brand new granite kitchen countertops, cabinets + backsplash; long driveway for several cars in tandem; large fenced backyard w cement pad for extra car storage or entertaining; storage shed; termite contract; roof approximately 5 years old. For Sale by Agent/Broker, $275K, Colette Meister (504) 220-1762. therealtormeister@gmail.com

TREME 1260 ESPLANADE AVE. #4 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70116

2 BR/2 BA Rare offering in Historic Treme, steps to French Quarter. 20’ vaulted ceilings w/exposed beams; skylights; 2 master suites (1 lower level, 1 upper); lg private balcony exclusive to unit; huge combo kit, living & dining rooms; gated, remote assigned & covered offstreet parking for 1 vehicle; gorgeous mature tropical setting w sparkling inground pool & beautiful common areas - truly an Oasis on Esplanade! For Sale by Agent/Broker, $360K, Colette Meister (504) 220-1762 therealtormeister@gmail.com

MISSISSIPPI PORT GIBSON, MS 39510

509 Church St. ~ McDougall House 1820’s Historic, Renovated Greek Revival Raised Cottage 5 beds/3 baths, pool. $185,000 1201 Church St. ~ Anderson House 3 beds/3.5 baths, Studio apt + bldg w/4 beds/4 baths. Used as B&B. $225,000 1207 Church St. ~ On National Register Re-creation of Antebellum Mansion 6 beds/4baths + 2 bed Carriage House. $395,000 Call Realtor Brenda Roberts Ledger-Purvis Real Estate 601-529-6710

FOR SALE SMALL SPACE CALL 483-3100

FREE TO LISTEN AND REPLY TO ADS Free Code: Gambit Weekly

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4 BR, near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750-$1200/mo. 504362-7487.

RIVER FRONT UPSCALE TOWN HOUSE

FIND REAL GAY MEN NEAR YOU New Orleans:

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MERCHANDISE

VENUS

Kennel #A31351003

Venus is a 3-year-old, spayed, Hound mix. Easy going and great with other dogs, Venus will make a great addition to your family. This social and well-behaved pup simply brings a smile to your face, whether she’s trying to lick your face off or showing off one of her tricks. Receive 50% off my adoption fee by mentioning I’m Pet of the Week!

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

BYWATER

BUYING OLD RECORDS

1025 PIETY ST

Bywater Duplex * 2 br, 2 full ba, w/ hdwd floors, w/d hkps, cen a/h, c-fans, fenced yd.

NO PETS. $1,400/ mo + dep. 1-888-2396566 or mballier@yahoo.com

Buying vinyl records. Albums (LP’s), 45’s and 78’s. Contact me at 504-329-5781 or via email at kullconanhunts@gmail.com

FLOWERS/PLANTS

CITY PARK/ BAYOU ST. JOHN

GREENHOUSES!

BESTVALUE 1BR $925

1 Occupant, 3143 Maurepas (rear) Yard, Garage, Office Nook, Cent A/H, Restaurants, Streetcar, City Park, NO PETS realcajuns@ gmail.com

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY

SAVE $750 ON FOOD EACH YEAR! 6’ x 8’ with Grow Sys-Irrigation.

Reinforced and Weatherproof. $1,395 installed + Plants Del $395.

TEXT: “GROW”to 504.810.3361

SERVICES HOME SERVICES

FRENCH QUARTER LUXURY

Furnished Apts $2,400$3,200/mo. Washer/Dryer.

Off street parking available for $250. 60 days min.

(504) 247-6736 bkdla@aol.com Bryan

UPTOWN/ GARDEN DISTRICT 1 BR EFF. CLOSE TO UNIVERSITIES

room, a/h unit, ceil fans, wood/tile floors, w/d onsite. Clara by Nashville. Avail June. $700/mo. 504-895-0016.

1026 SONIAT STREET

2 BR/1.5 BA, Camelback Double. Newly renovated; furnished kitchen, washer/dryer. 2 year lease. No pets. $2,250/mo. (504) 899-2386.

1508 CARONDELET ST.

2 BR, w/hdwd flrs, cent a/h, hi ceilgs, 24-hr laundry on site. No pets/smoking. $1500/ mo. + dep. 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@ yahoo.com

2 BLKS TO AUDUBON PARK

508 Henry Clay, 2BR, 1 BA, LR, DR, Kit with appl, HDWD flrs, High ceilings, Sunroom.

Washer/Dryer Hookups. Off Street Parking, $1200. 504-874-4330.

NOLA SHORT TERM FURNISHED

4810 St. Charles Av-Fab renovated upper floor $3750mo. All incl 24-hr security patrols WiFi 2BR/2BA Laundry JEAN HUNN RE/MAX N O Properties 504-2323570 Ea ofc ind owned & oper 864-2329 www.HunnProperties.com PAGE 51

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HOME REPAIR SPECIALIST •Vinyl Siding / Wood / Fascia *Repairs • New Install • Patio Covers / Sun Rooms / Screen Rooms • Roofing Repairs / New Roofs •Concrete - Driveways • Sidewalks • Patios • Sod • Pressure Washing & Gutter Cleaning - New Gutters & Repairs • Plumbing - Repairs • Sinks • Toilets • Subsurface • Painting - Exterior & Interior • Sheetrock Repairs “We Do What Others Don’t Want to!”

Call Jeffrey (504) 610-5181 jnich762@gmail.com Reference Available

IZZY

Kennel #A31218441 Izzy is a 3-year-old, spayed, Domestic Medium Hair mix. Izzy is a sassy lady who isn’t afraid to be clear about what she wants. And what she wants is a good mix of cuddle time, chin scratches, and a little alone time to nap it off. Izzy likes people but isn’t wild about other cats, so is looking for a place where she can be the one and only. Receive 50% off my adoption fee by mentioning I’m Pet of the Week!

To meet these or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun., call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

CAT CHAT Rey Rey is still at the Spaymart shop waiting to find a home of her own. Sweet Rey is a very affectionate and loving tabby cat. To learn more or meet her, call us at 504-454-8200 or come in to the shop at 6601 Veterans Blvd from 10am-4pm Mon-Fri.

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TRASHING, HAULING & STUMP GRINDING Call (504) 292-0724

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1452 MAGAZINE ST.

COZY COTTAGE Now Under $200/ sq ft! Built in 1981. Beautiful & C DU E Spacious 3BR / 2.5BA home home R features a Light & Airy, Open Floor Plan and Large Living Areas overlooking a Huge Backyard. Indoor and Outdoor living at their finest!

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39 Brazilian soccer legend 40 Cupid’s gear 41 2006 Court appointee 42 Jittery 44 Average grades 45 Nametag greeting 46 Fix again, as a hemline 49 Hit the books 51 Frog cousins 54 Deduce 55 Some TV screens 58 Hoodwinks 59 Sudden impulse 60 Close-knit group 63 Irish county 64 Accounting inspection 65 Rookie 67 Showers attention (on) 68 Part of a meet 71 Nessie’s home 72 Lenient 73 Sky-high structure 75 Legislative act

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76 Push-up beneficiaries 77 Ever-shifting 78 Family member 82 Pet adoption org.

85 Animal restraints 86 Joined the staff 87 Son of Seth 88 Careful reading 92 Displeased looks 93 What’s on every cover of a magazine 94 Really like 95 Destructive insect 96 Dude 97 Crude shelters 98 List-shortening abbr.

100 Small cut 101 Handheld organizers: Abbr.

102 Domesticate 103 Accustomed (to) 104 MIT degrees 105 CBS franchise 106 Male swan 107 Sign of a happy hound 108 Common portfolio holding

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ONLINE ONLY AUCTION AUCTION: MON. JUNE 13 - TUES. JUNE 14, 2016 Bidding Begins June 13th at 8:00 AM CT Bidding Concludes June 14th between 12:00 noon & 5:30 PM CT

65± STRUCTURES & RESIDENTIAL LOTS THROUGHOUT NEW ORLEANS

ALL PROPERTIES WILL SELL SUBJECT TO MINIMUM BIDS STARTING AT $2,500!

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FOR RENT

937 Gov nicholls 1/1.5 open concept lv/kit, updated bath, courtyard....................................................$2500 3100 Grand Rte St John 1/1 great location, wood flrs, hi ceils.......................................................................$975 DORIAN M. BENNETT • 504-920-7541 propertymanagement@dbsir.com

RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 825 Ursulines - 2bd/2ba ............................. $1800 1926 Burgundy - 2bd/2.5ba ................... $3000 1301 N. Rampart St. #207 - 1bd/1.5ba ..... $2400 823 St. Philip - 2bd/2ba .......................... $4750 1133 Kerlerec #1 - 1bd/1ba ....................... $1200 1133 Kerlerec #3 - 2bd/2ba ....................... $1600

CALL F OR MORE LISTINGS! 2340 Dauphine Street • New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 944-3605

FOR SALE

919 St. Philip #8 1/1 balc, ctyd, spacious, full kit, w/d on site, can be purch furnished...................$295,000 2538 Chartres 3/3 Updated former double, driveway parking .......................................................... $440,000 920 St Louis #4 - Studio condo,hi ceils, nat lite, wd flrs, s/s apps, granite, ctyd, pool .................. $275,000 280 Pi Street - Vacant Land Waterfront lot. Min. building rqm’t 2k sq. ft. 100 x 490. Lot extends into Intracoastal Wtwy. Dock can be built. .........$159,000 2223 Franklin Lrg lot for sale. Home is certainly able to be reno’d, but if not there is value in the salvaging of historic and valuable components of the home if interested in a tear down. ............... $85,000 1139 Burgundy 1/1 wd flrs, hi ceils, ctyd, reno’d kit, blcks frm Royal St & Frenchmen .................. $339,500

NEW LISTINGS!

3201 - 05 Carondelet Street

2 & 3 Bedroom Uptown Condos from $199,900

Shaun Talbot & Erin Stopak, Realtors Direct Line: (504) 535-5801 charlottecommons@talbot-realty.com www.charlottecommons.com

FOR SALE • 3936 Burgundy ($519,000) Bywater new renovation • 921.5 Eleonore ($385,000) Uptown charming condo • 1937 N Rampart (($429,000) Charming Marigny Cottage • 919 Governor Nichols #1 ($399,000) Renovated French Quarter Condo • 5016 Camp ($479,000) Raised basement double in wonderful Uptown location • 837 Royal ($899,000) Gorgeous, Elegant French Quarter Condo (Under Contract) • 1028 Kerlerec ($799,000) Marigny apartment complex (Under Contract) • 929 Bienville ($4,250,000) Old converted fire house in French Quarter SOLD! • 929 Bienville Unit #B ($1,725,000) Converted fire house in French Quarter SOLD! • 1026 Burgundy ($1,250,000) French Quarter Creole cottage SOLD! • 536 Bienville Unit #4 ($855,000) French Quarter penthouse condo SOLD!

• 2932 Chippewa ($675,000) Irish channel home SOLD! • 3501 Royal ($649,000) Bywater apartment complex SOLD! • 929 N Dupre ($635,000) Single home in Faubourg St. John SOLD! • 937 Bartholomew ($568,000) Gorgeous renovated single shotgun in Bywater SOLD! • 3024 Desoto ($492,500) Converted Bayou St. John double SOLD! • 936 Conti Unit #6 ($475,000) French Quarter condo SOLD! • 1312 Dauphine ($473,600) French Quarter renovated shotgun SOLD! • 128-130 S Scott ($445,000) Beautiful Mid City double SOLD! • 1416 Bourbon Unit #2 ($445,000) Renovated Marigny condo SOLD! • 856 Wilson (425,000) Mid City Duplex SOLD! • 827 Burgundy Unit C ($371,000) Gorgeous French Quarter condo • 3401 Gentilly ($325,000) Gentilly Terrace home SOLD! • 230-32 N Olympia ($315,000) Mid City shotgun double SOLD! • 1413 Pauline ($313,000) Charming meets modern side-hall cottage SOLD!

• 1019 Ursulines Unit A ($270,315) French Quarter condo SOLD! • 1135 Royal, Unit #3 ($259,000) Beautiful French Quarter condo SOLD! • 4921 Jeannette ($249,000) Metairie single home SOLD! • 1117 Congress ($235,000) Renovated double in Bywater SOLD! • 933 Orleans, Unit #1 ($225,000) Historic French Quarter condo SOLD! • 3017 St Claude ($215,000) Marigny shotgun single SOLD! • 718 Barracks Unit #5 ($205,000) French Quarter newly renovated condo • 3045 Royal ($200,000) Single Bywater home SOLD! • 2501 Delachaise ($165,000) Uptown apartment complex SOLD! • 814-16 N Miro ($140,000) Immaculately maintained double in the Treme SOLD! • 2612 St Ann ($135,000) Mid City renovated single shotgun SOLD! • 514 Dumaine Unit #3 ($135,000) French Quarter pied-a-térre SOLD! • 222 Mehle ($125,000) Adorable Arabi shotgun SOLD! • 6531 Dauphine ($117,000) Charming double in Old Arabi SOLD!

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5243 Tchoupitoulas commercial retail loc, Large space with parking ....................................................... $4250 425 Burgundy #6 2/1.5 Furnished, reno’d, balcony and courtyard ............................................................ $2200 539 Toulouse #A - Stu All utilities included, fully furnished. Updated ............................................. $1350 1233 Marais #15 - 1/1 3blks fr FQs/s apps, ceil fans, w/d hk ups, keyless gate ............................................. $975 724 Dumaine 2/1 Reno’d, wd flrs, new apps, Large street balc ........................................................... $2500 2110 Burgundy Unit A 3/2.5 newly reno’d, move in ready, new apps, could be an office .................. $2800 2110 Burgundy Unit B 3/2 new apps, ctrl ac, floor to ceiling windows, hdwd flrs ................................. $3000 3905 N. Rampart 2/2 newly reno’d, wd flrs, lrg furnsh’d bkyrd, ctrl a/h......................................................$2400

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